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and Sunday school are also, like others, falling vic- 

 tims to the sex evils of various forms. 



AN INNOVATION IN THE RURAL CHURCH 



Perhaps there is no better illustration of how the 

 economic affairs of the neighborhood may be vitally 

 linked with the church service than the work carried 

 on under the direction of Superintendent George 

 W. Brown, of Paris, Illinois. During one year Mr. 

 Brown conducted on seven different occasions an 

 over-Sunday program, somewhat as follows : 



On Saturday either at the country school house or 

 in the basement of the country church there was 

 arranged an exhibition of corn, while during the 

 day class exercises in the study of corn were in 

 progress. On the day following, Sunday, there were 

 two sermons, the theme of each being closely allied 

 to the economic problems studied the day previ- 

 ously. The ministers are reported to have cooperated 

 enthusiastically in this work, each one attempting 

 in his sermon to show how better economic life 

 may be made contributive to a better religious 

 life. 



On the Monday following, the program was con- 

 tinued with a farmers' institute representative of the 

 several interests of the adults and the young people. 

 At this Monday meeting a number of the faculty 

 of the state university were in attendance and gave 

 helpful addresses appropriate to the occasion. At 



