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ripe. He knows it all. From his own point of view, 

 his knowledge of the world is nearly completed. No, 

 one would prefer to go to the most remote country 

 district and, if need be, lasso some green, gawky, 

 sixteen-year-old who is afraid of the cars and the 

 big girls and who has never had a suit of clothes that 

 fits him. This scared, unbroken youth would go 

 through a tremendous amount of rough-and-tumble, 

 trial-and-error experiences during the course of his 

 college training; and he would live intensively and 

 rush into many unknown places and commit many 

 blunders, between whiles catching countless in- 

 spiring visions of how he might be or become a man 

 of great strength and ruggedness of character. 

 Such a man might be relied upon to shoulder the 

 heavy burdens of the world. Such a man could be 

 called out to join in the forefront of battle when the 

 moral and religious rights of the people were at issue. 

 Such a man when fully matured could be sent into 

 some kind of missionary field and be expected to 

 labor there for a long time alone, courageous and 

 persistent, finally winning a very small following ; 

 then a larger number of adherents ; and then the 

 entire population at his heels, applauding and back- 

 ing him up in his every worthy effort. 



The author has long had a vision of a man trained 

 and developed through the seasoning experiences 

 just sketched and who, under the inspiration and the 

 guidance of the Most High, will go into these rural 



