stitution needs to study carefully the rural-life 

 problem, and to plan a program of useful service 

 along* good educational and sociological lines. Un- 

 less this is done, the church will bear but little 

 relationship to a living community; its influence 

 on the young will be small; and its mission of 

 moral and religious leadership will be forgotten 

 by the "people." 



Oilier Agencies for Rural Improvement. In 

 addition to providing country schools and employ- 

 ing rural school teachers as efficient as the bes-t 

 in the towns, and the country church reawakened 

 and converted into an efficient institution for prog- 

 ress, the Grange, farmers' clubs, the Y. M. and 

 Y. W. C. A., the rural library, boys and girls' 

 clubs, farmers' institutes, woman's clubs, literary 

 and debating societies and amateur theatricals, of 

 which the Little Country Theatre is the best ex- 

 ponent, can with profit be incorporated into the 

 life of every rural community that maintains a 

 social center, and that takes genuine pride in mak- 

 ing country life what the possibilities so readily 

 warrant. 



No one of these separate organizations, even 

 though fullv developed and earnestly supported, 

 will altogether satisfy the needs of a community. 

 No one of them should be over-emphasized for its 

 own sake alone, for each is but a part of the com- 

 munity need. All are needed. The friends of each, 

 therefore, should work for all and all work for 

 each, and becoming thus federated, they will 

 prove to be a positive force and establish, beyond 

 question, a community spirit satisfactory to old 

 and young alike. 



A sufficient number of these rural social insti- 

 tutions to meet the changed conditions of modern 

 life is as essential as a progressive and highly 



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