The RURAL NEW.YORKER 
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of <><|U:il size on earth. This is another 
lpgsir.-v from the veil man. The original 
squash pie was the mixture of squash 
and maple sap which the red Woman baked 
in her hark dish by dropping hot stones 
into it! On this farm was a good grade 
Holstein cow. a flock of lied hens and a 
couple of (tigs. There were fish in the 
lake and fuel in the woods, In fact, with 
free rent, life tenure and financial help 
from the government, there was about 
everything which man needs to supply 
the simple needs of the body. And yet 
there was the heart hunger from that 
rankling sense of wrong and the thought 
of those few grains of dark pigment in 
the skin which must seem to these bright 
children like ‘'the never, never, riugiitg 
down the aisles of time.” I walked home 
supremely thankful that my lively and 
hopeful children are not chained to the 
past in that way. It is my opinion that 
socialism carried out to its logical con¬ 
clusion would finally put men and women 
into some such condition. The State or 
society might see t8 it that all bodily 
needs are satisfied, but so long as pig¬ 
ment. power of perception and pretriness 
make one person more attractive or more 
powerful thuii another, the weaker will be 
filled with envy, and the very fact of nat¬ 
ural equality will make mental or social 
inequality harder to hear. H. W. C. 
(To Be Continued) 
“He Also Acquires Merit” 
In Rudyard Kipling’s “Kim” we read 
the lama’s blessing. “These also acquire 
merit”; and Kim, the holy mail’s chela, 
replies: “More than that, they shall be 
paid in .silver.” 
Oh, yes. we all strive to acquire merit 
and to he paid in silver. Most of us have 
tasks that need to he done to benefit hu¬ 
manity ; we really try to perforin out¬ 
work in a creditable manner, and we 
want to be paid for it. There comes to 
my mind the picture of onr country 
preacher, who is paid $100 per month or 
thereabouts to keep safe and to rescue 
human souls. Shall lie acquire merit 
and shall he he paid in silver? lias your 
minister or priest deserved credit? And 
what have you paid him? 
This dominie who I know lives in the 
great, open country; his work is among 
the farm people who live near and on the 
foothills of llie Catskills. He is a Metho¬ 
dist preacher, and luis a charge including 
no less than six churches. 11 is. father was 
a farmer, and he is a farmer in spirit and 
deed. Somewhat like the itinerant 
preacher of a half-century ago, he covers 
the six churches of Ids charge. On 
Saturday nights lie occupies the pulpit 
of Church No. 1 or Church No. located 
back on the lull.-. Sunday morning lie 
drives out to talk to the good folks of 
Church No. f>. l>y 11 :,’t0 o’clock he is 
walking up the side aisle of Church No. 4. 
In the afternoon lie leads the service in 
Church No. 5, and after lunch delivers 
the fourth sermon of that day in Church 
No. (>. 
Has ho acquired merit? lie has not 
thought so much about that as he has 
about making the religions service of 
value to his people, and • »f helping solve 
the social and economic problems of a 
farming community. Indeed, lie hasn’t 
had time to think about personal rewards. 
Ho preaches in the language of farm¬ 
ers. He talks about crops and cows and 
consumers in relation to the moral and 
material progress of the countryside. 1 
saw him one day sitting out iu the open 
field with a prostrate shock of Indian 
corn before him. taking a stalk at a time, 
tearing hack the dry husks and breaking 
off the yellow ears. In one pile he laid 
the fodder, in another the ripe e<>ru. and 
in a third the soft “hog” corn. In such 
a manner he would sift out men’s hearts, 
lie saved the husks, and the poor grain as 
well as the ripe, as lie would save all men 
and set them to tasks suited to their re¬ 
spective abilities. 
A Chautauqua lecturer, a character 
analyst, recently examined our good 
dominie, whom he found much inclined t<> 
help others and to forget himself. Isn't 
that, after all. the only true way to ac¬ 
quire merit? 
"He has achieved success who has lived 
well, laughed often and loved much,” says 
a writer in Heart Throbs, “who has 
gained the respect of intelligent men and 
the love of little children; who has filled 
his niche and accomplished his tusk 
whether by an improved plant, a perfect 
poem or a rescued soul : who has never 
lacked an appreciation of earth’s beauty 
nor failed to express it ; who has always 
looked for the best in others and given 
the best he had: whose life is an inspira¬ 
tion. whose memory a benediction.'' Our 
country preacher measures up to that 
standard the best of anyone I know. 
The problem of the rural church, with 
its frequent decay and poverty, is not 
easy to solve. Yes. the life blood of a 
country church must he enriched by a 
prosperous agriculture. And in addition, it 
needs a man in its pulpit who understands 
farm and home conditions, who knows 
about the wearing of overalls and aprons, 
and who by reason of his symathy has 
acquired merit. KAY f. 1'OU.ard. 
The smartest thing I ever heard said 
was by a good, motherly old soul whom 
everybody loves. She lost her husband 
many years ago, and when asked why 
she never married again replied : "I have 
never happened to run across the man 
I would trade my pension for.”—Credit 
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