TheTownward Drift 



Record of White Churches 

 for the last Ten Years in 

 Gibson County, Tennessee 



The first thing to recommend, therefore, is that Gibson County main- 

 tain the ground it has and irhprove in these very particulars. Churches 

 and schools must take warning from the ill condition of other regions 

 which have lost very many of their people, from the closing down of 

 country industries, the indifference to country people's needs, the neglect 

 of social life and the exhaustion of the soil. If the churches in Gibson 

 County desire to maintain their influence, they must keep their people 

 around them. To keep their people they must teach that the soil is 

 sacred. They must praise the farmer who fertilizes and who improves 

 the rotation of crops, who keeps cattle, who plants clover and who in 

 other words is a farmer for the future as well as for the present. The 



42 



