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Pastoral Parson and His Country Folks 
By Rev. George B. Gilbert 
Being Prepared. — A minister ’way 
down South was once talking to an old 
darkey woman, and the conversation 
turned on the future existence. _ “Do 
you believe in hell?” asked the minister 
of mammy. “I shure do, sah, I shure do 
believe in it,” was the answer. “And 
what do they burn there?” was the next 
question. “Why, they burn brimstone, of 
course,” came the ready answer. The 
minister thought he had the old lady 
this time, for he asked : “And where do 
they get the brimstone?” “Why, the 
folks done go and bring it with them, of 
course,” came the ready response. _ The 
first question asked about those dinners 
we have after each service down at the 
church almost always is, where does the 
food all come from? And it comes just 
the way the brimstone comes—the people 
bring it with them. 
Pi-enty Last Sunday. —And we cer¬ 
tainly had plenty to eat and plenty to 
cook last Sunday, for it was our Harvest 
Home Sunday. A Harvest Home Sunday 
is one of the very best days a church in 
the country can have come, and don’t 
think it such a terrible job. The church 
was never unlocked till five minutes of 11, 
and not a thing had been done in prepara¬ 
tion ; at just half-past 11 everything was 
in readiness and the service began. The 
Parson picked up two or three hoys on 
the running board, and one was dis¬ 
patched for Autumn foliage boughs, while 
another was sent to ring the bell, and the 
Parson’s boy was put to splitting wood 
for the fire. The Parson cleaned out last 
Sunday’s trimmings, and Mrs. Parson 
grabbed the broom. Then more foliage 
and the beautiful flowers began to come 
with every auto load, and the church 
was soon a veritable fairyland. We used 
sumach in the windows, and wild asters 
and goldenrod. Then came the great 
beautiful Dahlias for the altar, and 
asters lor the font. 
The Vegetables. —Then came the veg¬ 
etables. We put the cornstalks in the 
corners of the chancel and of the church. 
We stripped the husks from the big gold¬ 
en ears, and it certainly looked nice. 
Then we laid bunches of carrots and beets 
and turnips, with the leaves on, along 
the chancel steps. The church in the 
open country wants to he married to the 
soil. Each needs the other, each is a part 
of the other, neither can live without the 
other. Dr. Warren H. Wilson has shown 
how the Mormons, the Pennsylvania 
Germans and the Scotch Presbyterians 
are the most successful farmers, and re¬ 
main on the land because they have given 
a religious sanction to country life and 
have made the church the center of the 
life of the community, as it was in the 
mediaeval village community of Europe. 
Farmer and His Community. —The 
Parson has been reading and studying 
Prof. Sanderson’s book on the “Farmer 
and His Community.” What he says 
about the community’s religious life is 
fine, and especially the way he treats of 
the matter of the church supper—just 
what the Parson has been hollering about 
for so long—cut out the charge supper to 
make money. Don’t commercialize the 
sacred thing of eating any longer. _ Use 
the supper for promoting good Christian 
fellowship, perfecting the church as the 
family of families. If you must have 
some money for it. pass the plate round. 
But, about that Harvest Home Day in 
the old church. iWe had the county agent 
down, and the county woman worker, 
too. After the service we all had dinner. 
By the way, the Parson preached on the 
subject of how many things the country 
bad that the city could not have. What 
city church could be trimmed up like ours 
was that day? What city people, in 
their great crowded tenements, could have 
the flowers that the farmers could? And 
never before has the Parson seen so many 
flowers along the lonely roads as this 
year. This is a grand thing, and one 
that will help keep the women folks con¬ 
tented on the land. After the dinner the 
agent took the men around on a tour, 
talking and explaining about the farm 
products. He also gave them some point¬ 
ers about selecting exhibits for the fair. 
We got one first, two seconds and a third, 
and have vowed we will do better next 
year. Closson got first in the junior- 
class on corn and was immensely pleased. 
His interest in farming went up 100 per¬ 
cent. He is planning for his own piece 
of corn next year. The woman county 
worker had a fine talk with the church 
women, and made plans for the Winter. 
We were all at the church five hours that 
day. , „ 
Another Day. —And yesterday, Oc¬ 
tober 12, we had another great day. 
Along this time of year every day is a 
“great” day with us. We had company 
here at the house from down near New 
York; thev come once every year when 
the foliage is at its best, to visit us_ and 
the church,; made such good friends 
through reading of us in The Rural 
New-Yorker. We had to be late at the 
church, having had another service 10 
miles away. But when we all got there 
the dinner was all ready aud everything 
spick and span as you please. Talk 
about children—there were 17 sitting at 
one table; 54 took dinner together. 
Among other things we had about 20 
quarts of beef stew, and that disappeared 
in no time. It must have pleased our 
city company to see all those children 
around there and to hear them answer up 
so well on the questions the Parson asked 
them before the whole congregation, for, 
when the plate went round they cer¬ 
tainly helped the old church out. It al¬ 
most took the treasurer’s breath away 
when the counted out the hills. We had 
a man who used to be a minister and 
who is 89 years old to talk to us all. It 
was a great thing for all those children to 
see and hear such a man, and of that 
age. 
New Jersey Again. —Yes, the Parson 
has been down to New Jersey again. 
“Goodness,” says Clossie, “I should think 
you live down in New Jersey.” We had 
a great party down there, and the Par¬ 
son gave a talk on story telling, and told 
many stories, and then we played games, 
and danced the Virginia reel, and played 
tucker, then we would “all forward and 
back,” “forward and leave the ladies in 
the center,” then the “gents circle round 
the outside” and form basket, and all 
circle round on one foot. Fun, no name 
for it. Then, right and left, and do it 
over again, with the girls on the outside, 
then off again two by two for tucker. 
Well, the minister the Parson stayed 
with has a wonderful community church. 
From a Sunday school of 40 he enrolled 
on rally day the total of 208. Quite a 
number of people on that day could not 
get into the church at all. They have 
raised his salary till he will not let them 
raise it any more. The Sunday school 
overflows the church building, the parson¬ 
age, and some classes in a third house. 
All of which comes from having a minis¬ 
ter and a church that is community- 
minded. The welfare of everyone in that 
locality, from a religious, social, economic 
and political angle, is the prime concern 
of the minister and the church people, as 
it should be in every community. 
Better Start Poor. —That doesn’t 
sound inviting, but, do you know, the 
Parson visited a great poultry and day- 
old chick plant down there, and that is 
what the man said. “Had I started with 
capital I should probably have made a 
failure of this chicken business.” As it 
was, he started with 60 Leghorn hens and 
three cockerels and almost no money. 
But he had what was a great deal bet¬ 
ter—experience. lie had worked out on 
different chicken farms, for nothing to 
start with, for 10 years. He knew as 
much about the business, just about, as 
anybody, or as there was to know, not 
from hooks or papers, either, but right 
from the henhouse—a capital place to 
learn the poultry trade. He now sets 40,- 
000 eggs at one time. He was just put¬ 
ting 8,000 hens for breeding stock into 
henhouses. With a quarter 'turn of the 
crank he can turn 3,500 eggs in an in¬ 
cubator at one time. Lucky the old hen 
cannot see or she would be discouraged. 
Yet this man still takes off his hat to 
the hen. Science can beat her in quan¬ 
tity production, but a close approach is 
all that science can ever expect when it 
comes to quality. This man learned the 
carpenter business before he started in. 
and built, himself, the house he lives 
in, and practically all his houses, saving 
almost half of the cost. 
The School Board. —Yes, the Parson 
was elected to the town school board last 
week. With five others on the board, all 
thinking quite differently than he does 
about schools, there will probably not be 
a great deal he can do for a while at 
least. He can give the matters brought 
up a lot of publicity in the local paper. 
The Parson believes there is a lot of time 
wasted by teachers because the text¬ 
books have been practically taken out of 
the schools and the teachers have to spend 
hours and hours putting work on the 
board and getting ready for the morrow. 
This is one reason who so many girls 
will not teach any more. Another thing, 
teachers are supervised to death; they 
have about as much-to say about their 
school as a graphophone does about what 
it shall play. Then again, and worst of 
all, why can’t the school teach children 
how to write and spell? They don’t do it 
in this town, and the Parson is going 
to know the reason why. Then again, 
there is a big feeling in this town against 
spending so much money on people run¬ 
ning hither and yon among the schools. 
Last year the school nurse told sister 
that her tonsils were enlarged and she 
must have them taken out. Without hav¬ 
ing her throat touched, this year the 
nurse, a different one, told her she had a 
beautiful throat. Last year she was told 
that her teeth were yellow and she must 
go at once to a dentist and have them 
cleaned. This year the nurse told her 
that she was so glad td see her teeth were 
yellow: that was a sign of strong teeth. 
So there you have it. Why pay out 
$1,200 a year for such service? 
A Sad Picture. —This is the time of 
year when so many young people go away 
to school. A sad picture was thrown on 
the great screen of life in a small town 
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