The Revival of Interest in the Country Church (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Revival of Interest in the Country Church There is no need to take time to sketch for this audience the revival of interest in country life and in rural institutions. Before the report of President Roosevelt's Country Life Com mission was published the problem was sociological and was concerned mainly with New England. Since that time it has been an economic group of problems, because that Commis sion insisted that the causes of rural changes are in the social economy. The Way the farmer gets a living is undergoing reconstruction, and with it rural institutions are being rebuilt. There are those-i wonder if any are here present - Who believe that the farmer will desert his home in the country and come to live in villages. Already the merchant has gone to the village, the better schools are in the villages, and it is hard to improve the country schools. It looks as if the farmer Were abandoning the one-room rural school. The preachers throughout the United States generally live in the villages, and preach in the country where they do not live. I do not hold with those who think that the American farmer will ever be content to live in a village and farm the open country. But I call to your, attention that there are those who so think, and it is a problem of profound import ance to determine whether it is better for the farmer to be a villager or a land holder, living in the country. 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.