The Church of the Open Country

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Excerpt from The Church of the Open Country: A Study of the Church for the Working Farmer What is the use of the Church in the open coun try? Some of them have through a defective training learned to value their own souls dear and the Church very cheaply. Having secured a sort of fire insurance against the next world, they care nothing for an efficient Church in this world. But the religious history of the country community demonstrates that an efficient Church is necessary to the salvation of souls. Others there are who hold, as a matter of theory, that all rural institutions should be assembled at the population centers, pre sumably at the railway stations, and that ultimately the farmers will follow their stores, schools, and churches, and will live in congested villages, going out mornings to their fields, and returning in the evening to sleep. But the course of American his tory indicates no such future peopling of the land. It becomes the Church to serve the farmer where he lives. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.