Our third recomniendation is as to the churches. It is to the effect 

 that there are churches enough. The county is more than adequately 

 churched. Let us not rejoice at the organization of any more, but 

 rather let us turn to the improvement and furnishing of these we have. 

 The Survey shows that they are very inadequately equipped for their 

 work. They need Sunday-school rooms, a class-room for each great 

 division of the members of the congregation, who may be taught, and 

 need to be taught, the message and the truths of the Bible. The one- 

 cell church should be built into a beehive of religious work. Not only 

 preaching, but teaching and social meeting and dinners and Farmers' 

 Clubs, and Organized Bible Classes have need of a place in the church, 

 that they can call their own. Every interest of the community, indeed, 

 ought to have a welcome in the church building, that it may there be 

 tested and discussed in the spirit of the Master, and shaped to be a 

 part of his Kingdom. 



Especially is there need of a policy of recreation among the churches, 

 that is larger than the present petty chaffering of sales and suppers, for 

 the funds of the Ladies' Societies. The women of the churches are 

 doing well, against all opposition, but they have little except opposition 

 from the men of the churches. 



Two motives impel the churches to take a hand in the recreation of 

 the community. It will help in solving the labor problem. For the 

 farm laborer goes to the city too often simply because he has no social 

 enjoyment in the country. Moreover, it will do more to solve the pro- 

 blem of rural morality than any other measure that can be taken. The 

 godly people of the community see this for their own children. They 

 take charge of their play, in order to control their moral training. They 

 would find that all the children of the community will respond in the 

 same way. Supervised and well provided recreation will do more 

 for training the citizens of the future than any other effort or ex- 

 penditure. 



Our fourth and final recommendation has to do with community 

 organization. Attention has been called to the over-multiplication of 

 schools and churches, a condition which offends against both economy 

 and eflficiency. In general the survey has made it abundantly clear that 

 in almost every community in the county there is a distinct lack of con- 

 centration of interests and activities. With one exception there is no 

 community in the county which has developed for itself any very exten- 

 sive o])})ortunities of concerted action. A community should possess 

 individuality, a sense of its own unity. At almost every point country 

 life is too diffuse. Its energies are scattered and consequently fail of 

 their most advantageous use. In the finest meaning of the term a com- 

 munity is not a casual association of a number of people about a school 



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