132 The State and the Farmer 



an associative organization should go with a 

 fair as will keep intending participants I do 

 not like the word exhibitors in a state of 

 preparation and attention for the whole year. 

 The fairs should reach all farm children. And 

 the significance of everything that is shown at 

 a fair should be explained by a good teacher 

 standing on the spot. 



The rural church. 



I have said (page 17) that the country 

 church is not accomplishing what it might 

 for the rural communities. This is not due to 

 lack of devoted service on the part of the 

 country pastor, but to a need of re-direction 

 in the institution. Concerned in too many 

 cases with technical religion, formal piety, 

 small and empty social duties, the country 

 church does not appeal strongly to men with 

 rich red blood in their veins. The hardness of 

 the dogma is the measure of the sterility. The 

 trouble is that the rural church has no organic 

 connection with the life of the community, in 

 this regard being worse off than the school. 



