FIFTY MILLION STRONG 



Reformation, which led to the establishment of a Church 

 more in harmony with the spirit of human progress. But 

 in the end the one Protestant Church was replaced by a great 

 number of Protestant Churches, many of which differed 

 simply in non-essentials. In the past generation, however, 

 the many Protestant Churches have begun to disregard the 

 things that separate them, which were given great emphasis 

 years ago, and to direct their attention to the things on which 

 they agree. This is a wonderful step in the direction of event- 

 ual church union, which some of the prophets of the present 

 day consider necessary before the evangelization of all the 

 peoples and races of earth can be undertaken in deadly earnest. 

 So in the religious world the next step will be church union, 

 and the final step will be the whole world brought to the foot 

 of the Cross. The New York Independent made the state- 

 ment in a recent editorial that there is today a " world con- 

 science." If this be true, then the future will see rapid prog- 

 ress in the establishing of the Kingdom among men. 



A study of world progress reveals the fact that cooperation 

 is playing an increasingly important part in world develop- 

 ment, and a study of world conditions warrants the con- 

 clusion that America is likely to dominate world activities 

 during the next generation. This fact and this conclusion 

 being rather generally accepted, the future of humanity is in a 

 measure dependent on the growth of the cooperative spirit in 

 the United States. And since America can advance no more 

 rapidly than the Rural Half of the nation progresses, the 

 National Forward Movement, yea, the World Forward Move- 

 ment rests with Rural America. 



This little book has sought to make clear that, in the present 

 world crisis, Rural America will rise to the responsibility 

 placed upon her and do her part toward making the nexl 

 generation the greatest in all history. 



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