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larly free from sectarian feeling. Their Sunday-school 

 work has always been carried on as a union enterprise. 

 Two school districts more than a generation ago built 

 one school in common and have since had a large dis- 

 trict school carrying on public school work in two 

 grades, under two teachers. In other ways the people 

 of the locality act as if integrally one. May it not be 

 largely in consequence of this solidarity that there is 

 found there a larger farm population than can be found 

 elsewhere in the coiinty of Grenville ? 



The church, too, is lacking in certain regards in the 



country. This is d\ie not to absence of devoted service 



on the part of pastors and church workers, but to need 



of redirection. And lack here is more far-reaching in 



effects than at any other point. The church is, of all 



institutions, deepest in the affections of the greatest 



number of persons. If there be an unsatisfied hunger 



that she alone can meet, that want must touch rural 



life at a more vital point than any other. Let us 



notice such lack in two directions only. The farmer 



is entering a new world-environment for which the 



church is called upon to fit him. He no longer meets 



face to face those with whom he deals. He sells by 



sample for delivery at a distance, and must learn to 



deliver goods up to sample. He is entering upon new 



relations with his neighbors through co-operation. The 



greatest ethical task of each generation is to provide 



new forms of guidance for such new conditions as these. 



The greatest ethical task for the church in the city is 



to plare within the new corporate industrial and com- 



mereial organizations the controlling motives of justice 



and brotherhood. Th^ most fundamental honesty 



tf>-day deals with unearned profits. So the greatest 



