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4. The Village Teacher. This teacher should be a com- 

 munity-builder, a teacher of adults as well as of boys. On 

 account of the difficulty of securing and keeping such a teacher 

 in a farm village it has been suggested that the offices of teacher 

 and preacher be combined. This teacher-preacher could not 

 probably alone teach all grades of an elementary school, but he 

 and his wife, for example, might together carry both school 

 and parish work. The teacher for the village needs special 

 training. 



5. The Village Pastor, If the Christian church is to make 

 a substantial impression upon the one hundred thousand farm 

 villages of China, it cannot confine its preachers even to the 

 small cities there must be some attempts to keep a pastor in a 

 village church. Here again special training is needed. A 

 middle school course in agriculture, with a year or two of 

 ministerial training added, should fit a man very well for this 

 work, provided he is one of a group who could in a sense be 

 supervised from some center by an even better trained man. Per- 

 haps the preacher-agriculturist is a more practicable combination 

 than even the teacher-preacher. A man trained for extension 

 work, really expert in the prevailing type of agriculture, min- 

 gling freely with the people, helping them in their crises, and 

 then as pastor, preacher, and friend, leading them into the way 

 everlasting, would personify to the Chinese rural folk, more 

 than any one else could, both the practical and the spiritual 

 aspects of the Christian message. 



6. Local farmers. A leaven of local leadership among the 

 farmers themselves must be forthcoming. The lower schools 

 evidently must be depended upon to train an increasing number 

 of young farmers who can read, and who can and will lead in 

 all works of farm and community improvement. This need 

 should never be lost sight of, for these men in their humble 

 way are quite as significant as any other group of leaders. 



7. Local Gentry. In the initial stages at least, the men 

 who could most influence village improvement are the local 

 gentry; every effort should be made to interest them and in a 

 sense to educate them to the village program. 



8. City Business Men. In all the larger aspects of the 

 agricultural program, and in many practical problems such as 

 credit, agricultural co-operation, transportation questions and 

 the like, Chinese agriculture should have the personal intelligent 

 aid of business men. It is for their interest as well, but 



