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fallen 5.S per ceut. in ten years, ours 8 per cent; in 

 twenty years theirs has been lowered by 10.2, ours by 

 13.8. Instances of percentages of city growth with us 

 are almost unequalled any^vhere, Winnipeg, 221 per 

 cent, in ten years, Edmonton 848, Calgary 893, Regina 

 1,243, Swift Current, 1,430, and Saskatoon, 10,523 per 

 cent, in one decade. The development of corporation 

 control over production and sources of wealth is with us 

 perhaps the most riotously rapid the world has yet seen. 

 Seven years ago trust control had scarce begun in 

 Canada; already it dominates almost every one of the 

 more lucrative sources of wealth. On the other hand 

 the call is imperative because the church is as yet strong 

 in Canada in the rural districts, — to act efficiently she 

 must meet the situation before becoming weakened. 

 And yet again, her allies are with us of the strongest. 

 McGill University, through her faculty of agriculture 

 in Macdonald College at Ste. Anne's, leads the world in 

 university education for agriculture. Ontario alone em- 

 ploys over a hundred trained, skilled, competent agri- 

 culturists, teaching, and travelling over the Province 

 furnishing information and advice upon farm condi- 

 tions and possibilities. Dr. Robertson says: " In those 

 regards Canada is in the front rank among all the 

 nations of which I have any knowledge."* Such are the 

 factors in the call to the church in Canada. 



Life has two sovereign moments: one when man settloB 



down 

 To some life-worthy purpose; one, when he gains the 



cTown.t 



• Con8«rvat!on Commission 111, p. 90. 



t Matthew Ulchcy Wright, In Hand'H " Treasury of Canadian 

 Verse." 



