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West are organized with the Grain Growers in all three 

 Prairie Provinces, working side by side. Their aims 

 are to solve the many problems directly bearing upon 

 home life, educational facilities, health and all things 

 which affect the farm woman's life and they have been 

 of great assistance in many ways, particularly in Red 

 Cross and other patriotic endeavors. To do justice to 

 the noble efforts of Western Canada's farm women 

 would require a separate volume. 



Still another development with far-reaching possi- 

 bilities is the tendency of the Grain Growers and the 

 Church to get together. It first revealed itself in 

 Alberta under the conscientious encouragement of 

 President H. W. Wood, of the United Farmers of 

 Alberta, when in 1916 he inaugurated "U.F.A. Sunday" 

 one Sunday in each year to be set aside as the 

 Farmers' own particular day, with special sermons and 

 services. It was born of a realization that something 

 is fundamentally wrong with our social institutions 

 and that " the Church will have to take broader 

 responsibilities than it is now doing." 



" Is, Christ to develop the individuals and Carl Marx 

 mobilize and lead them?" asked Mr. Wood. " Is Christ 

 to hew the stones and Henry George build them into 

 the finished edifice? If Christ cannot mobilize His 

 forces and build true civilization His name will be 

 forgotten in the earth. The solution of the economic 

 problems must be spiritual rather than intellectual. 

 This is the work of the Church and the Church must 

 take the responsibility for it." 



Not only did the idea of a special Sunday meet with 

 hearty response from the churches and farmers in 

 Alberta, but it was taken up in Manitoba and Sas- 

 katchewan. In 1917 "Grain Growers' Sunday" was 



