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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 county of Grenville ? 



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

 country. This is due 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 fanner 

 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 place within the new corporate industrial and com- 

 mercial organizations the controlling motives of justice 

 and brotherhood. The most fundamental honesty 

 to-day deals with unearned profits. So the greatest 



