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results. A second conference was held in December, 

 1911. with a similar but more constructive programme, 

 the outcome of which is another volume, " The Country 

 Church and Rural Welfare." 



The various denominations have organized for the 

 solution of the rural problem, and it has been found 

 that such organization has called forth the services of 

 some of the church's strongest men, and that the agencies 

 thus established have quickly come to the forefront in 

 the expressed interest of the church as well as in the 

 manifest fruitfulness of their service. The Presby- 

 terian Church, North, was in the van with her Depart- 

 ment of Church and Country Work, with Dr. Warren 

 H. Wilson as chairman. The Department has made 

 surveys of rural conditions in Pennsylvania, Missouri, 

 Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois, ^laryland and Tennesee, 

 of the same general nature as the great Pittsburg survey 

 into city conditions. The results are published in most 

 interesting documents in pamphlet form. They cover 

 very comprehensively economic, educational, social, and 

 religious conditions, and constitute one of those richly 

 concrete life-studies which in this present time are lay- 

 ing the solid foundations of social and religious advance. 

 But they arc far from being simply studies of the situa- 

 tion. Each one is an efficiency-document as well, out- 

 lining a [)rogrammc of work rciidcrod obviously neces- 

 sary to the I<ic;il situation. The Department of Chiireli 

 anrj Count rv Lif*- has other lines of helpful work as 

 well. During the summer of 1912 four summer schools 

 for country ministers were carried on in widely sepiii- 

 ated territorv. Leaflets and other literature are wid(dy 

 used, and even the pietiire postcard, riiere lies Iw^fore 



