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the boys in their teens; another room for the girls in their teens, where 

 each should have a teacher of their own, wise and warm-hearted, who 

 will take up the great lessons about the heroes of the Bible and teach 

 them to the young while their minds are open to these stories. There 

 should be also a room for boys and girls where several classes might be 

 taught. In this instance the teachers may be young men and women 

 not so wise nor so mature in judgment as the few great teachers in the 

 school, but sensible and good and knowing the Bible. Then there should 

 be a room for the little children where no one else shall come in to dis- 

 turb and where a Godly woman of leadership and with a tender heart 

 for the young shall preside. 



The church of whatever denomination that builds a building like 

 this will do great service to the whole country side. All christian people, 

 even if they cannot agree to the doctrines of that church, ought to give 

 their money to support it, ought to worship with its people and pray for 

 its success, for that church will be the social center. It will be the 

 neighborhood church and it will help every other church within ten 

 miles by the success and the spiritual service which shall be within its walls. 



Eighth. The pressing necessity of Gibson County is a new kind of 

 school. There should be established at the best point in the County, 

 for farmers to attend it, a school for grown-up folks, where no one under 

 eighteen years should be admitted, and no one over fifty should be re- 

 jected. It should be a religious school, full of the sound of hymns and 

 beginning every class with prayer. The teaching should be about farm- 

 ing, and the scholars should be country people, who have farms or are 

 working on farms. The courses should be short, each person being ex- 

 pected to stay no more than six months. A man or woman can learn a 

 great deal in six months, if he has a farm or a country home to practice on. 



The teachers in this school must be trained men and women, as good 

 as are at the University, but they must not try to make their scholars 

 too learned. They are to train farmers, not to make professors. There- 

 fore they ought to use few books and many examples. When they talk 

 about trees, they ought to draw a tree on the board and talk about it 

 for a while, then take the class out in the orchard and show what they are 

 talking about, on an actual tree. When they talk about butter, instead 

 of a book about butter, they ought to have cream and a churn and salt 

 right there, and make butter before the class. 



This kind of a school will make Christian farmers, who will stay in the 

 country. If we can keep our church people in the country, we can keep 

 up the churches that are there. If the farmers prosper and are happy 

 there, we will have preachers to live with them. If the schools will turn 

 their hand to making good farmers, there will be no great trouble about 

 maintaining the churches in the country. 



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