CHAPTER X 



THE FARMER AND HIS WIFE AS LEADERS 

 OF THE YOUNG 



No less urgent and divine is the call for spiritual 

 aid and leadership in the rural districts to-day than 

 was that which came to the apostle Paul of old in 

 form of a vision and a voice crying, "Come over 

 into Macedonia and help us." In the open country 

 field, far removed from church or social center, is the 

 demand for leaders and directors especially great. 

 Men engage for a lifetime in an enthusiastic endeavor 

 to amass wealth and to build up great business con- 

 cerns. But the man or woman who heeds the call 

 to go forth into the country districts and save the 

 bodies and souls of the young that person will 

 not only experience exceeding great joy and enthu- 

 siasm in his work, but he will thereby lay up for him- 

 self in the memories of the redeemed a precious 

 treasury of golden deeds. 



Country parents as a rule are not in a position to do 

 the best things even for their own children, much 

 less to go out as leaders of the young at large. They 

 are sometimes lacking in the necessary means, more 

 frequently too busy, and most frequently not suffi- 



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