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The Farmstead 



which may serve for a time to stimulate lag- 

 gards and appear to take the place of changed 

 pm^poses in life. But the debt saddled on the 





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Fig. 80. Buried in trees. The opposite extreme from Fig. 2G. 



congregation tends to drive the church-goers to 

 the rear seats and eventually out of doors. I 

 have sometimes thought that a country church 

 could not well Ije too small. Man is a grega- 

 rious animal, and does not enjoy church -going 

 when the seats are but r>artially occupied. 



The plain, substantial stone church shown in 

 Fig. 31 is located in a sparsely settled district 

 on the windy prairies of Kansas. It is certainly 

 most appropriate and fits its environment ; all 

 it lacks to make it beautiful is a suitable setting 

 of trees and shrubberv. It would then serve as 



