"four IN A ROW." ALL OF THEM ARE CHURCHES. THREE OF THEM HAVE PREACH- 

 ING ONCE A MONTH AND ONE HAS PREACHING TWICE A MONTH AND 

 THERE IS NO RESIDENT MINISTER IN THE TOWN 



farmers and the loyalty of every farmer to his own leaders. The great 

 lesson to be taught by the country church is that of obedience not 

 merely to great leaders who are dead, but to living leaders of today. 

 It will be a good thing for the country churches when farmers learn to 

 cooperate in buying and selling and in manufacturing their own pro- 

 ducts, for it will train them in obedience, in loyalty, in truth, in honorable 

 action, in responsibility and chief of all will train leaders among farmers, 

 the need of whom at the present time is the greatest need in the country. 



Fijth. We recommend that the schools in Gibson County devote 

 more attention to training men for the work they will have to do. Farm- 

 ing is now coming to be a learned profession. We are beginning to see 

 how noble and dignified farming may be made. Behind the tiller of the 

 soil are learned men investigating in chemistry, in physics, in physio- 

 logy, in botany. Some day the common farm hand, the careless negro 

 or renter may till the soil under learned instructions. This is coming to 

 pass already. The farmer is the botanist. He is the man who practices 

 the lessons about chemistry which learned men discover in their secret 

 laboratories. 



Now the common school ought to teach to the ordinary boy and girl 

 who never go to any other school these lessons and this learning. 



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