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THE COUNTRY CHURCH PROBLEM.
What shall be the place of the country church
in the reconstruction of rural life? asks the Kansas
City Star pertinently. Once more this question is be
ing asked. In the course of the war when many other
problems demanded attention and when it was the
single task of the farmer to produce sufficient food
stuffs for the world, the country church was compara
tively forgotten. Now it appears that the problem will
be regarded as mote vital to the life of the entire na
tion than ever before.
• While little has been said about the country church
in recent years, there is no reason to belive that con
ditions have changed since the last extensive surveys
were made. The conditions then were startling enough.
In a single state there were 1,200 vacant country
churches. In three counties in another state it was
found that thirty-one churches had been abandoned,
that only 32 per cent of the churches were gaining,
15 per cent were stationary and 53 per cent were los
ing. A survey in another state revealed that 136
country churches had a total membership of only 1,-
500. In forty-six churches in two counties of a cer
tain state there were no young men.
Similar conditions were found in the rural dis
tricts throughout the United States. The falling off
in the country church has in nearly all cases exceed
ed the decline in rural population caused by the steady
drift to the cities. Os course the city church has gain
ed at the expense of the country church in this shift
of population and," although the churches of the entire
country are able to show annually an increase in mem
bership, many members are lost in transit and many
others become entirely inactive in the city church
whose numerical strength they increase.
The plight of the country church has been greatly
deplored by religious leaders for some years, for the
rural church has long been the source from which
men of power in various fields of activity came'. It
has been estimated that about 90 er cent of the lead
er.-hip in religious affairs had its origin in the rural
church.
Os course the constant flow of the country popu
lation to the big cities is the chief explanation of
country church conditions, which have been further ag
gravated by the influx of foreign elements with their
indifference to the rural church and other American
institutions. The movable habits of the farms has also
accelerated the decline of the church.
But there are other causes. It has been sug
gsted that the growing prosperity of rn'any farmers
is productive of indifference to religious affairs.
That in some sections thert have been too many
country churches is just as evident as it is in all
sections that the ministers have been shamefully un
provided for. The result of this latter condition has
been a remarkable scarcity of able pastors for the
country churches and almost a complete absence of resi
dent ministers of any character. The average sal
ary of ministers outside of 150 large cities of thje
United States is less than S6OO a year.
Yet the country minister has been admonished
constantly to stand by his task and duty, often by
those who themselves were once rural pastors who
left the country church for a “larger field of service.”
Obviously, little assistance can be expected from this
source unless conditions change.
The change may come, if by some means, prob
ably by federation, the country churches can make
adequate provision for an able resident pastorate.
This plan has been tried in some sections, and from
all reports it has been successful. But it cannot be
depended upon in all cases, for rural church member
ship is as a rule conservative in denominational mat
ters and finds many objections to federation.
It is believed further that the city church, which
owes very much to its rural sister, should lend assist
ance in this crisis by taking under its watchful care
the declining country church, extending funds, exchang
ing pastors frequently and in other ways carrying the
advantages of the city to the country.
It is also evident that the country church must
extend its activities and become something of a com
munity center. Unless it does this at once and in a
rather extensive way its very existence is threatened
by the growing popularity of the rural community
club, which furnishes many kinds of entertainment
- Ripplinf
U.A £/Watt Mason/"Lrt j
THE TREES.
THE trees have music of their own, a soft and
soothing monotone, that lulls a man to rest; I
have a volume to peruse, but under them, I snore
and snooze, my chin upon my breast. To sit be
neath a swaying birch is much like being in a church;
your drowsy eyelids close; and to the realms of
dreams you hie, until an active, loathsome fly
camps down upon your nose. How often I have
lain awake until I saw the morning break, and
slumber would not come; and I would
sadly leave the hay, to face another toilsome
day, all punk and on the bum. My nights are often
things of dread, I toss around upon my bed, and find
no comfort there; but when I sit beneath a tree, the
sweet restorer tomes to me, its coattailss in the air
The trees have voices sad and sweet, their world-old
music they repeat , a solemn, sylvan choir; the same
old song they used to sing when Earth was but a
half-baked thing, and mortals worshiped fire. They
croon their mournful lullaby while men are born,
grow up and die, they sigh with every breeze; and
when I quit this vale of tears I hope to sleep a million
years beneath the nodding trees.
and social opportunities to the country population.
Finally, there are some religious leaders who do
not believe that any of these suggested remedies will
avail unless there there is a general revival of religious
interest on the part of the rural population.
j _ What Other Editors Say |
JOB FOR FOOL KILLER.
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Ner 1 y a year has gone by since the armistice
was signed, the tr eaty for peace has been in readiness
for signing for so me time, and yet congress continues
to dally for what? Political capital, nothing more and
nothing less. T hey will eventually do what should
have been done right off the bat just as soon as the
treaty was ready. If the fool killer was to come along
le could get a las ting job in the halls of congress in
city of Washington.—Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
WOULD HELP SOME.
The allies fa vor a food campaign to “stabilize
Russia.” A food campaign will do much to ‘stabilize’
America and Eng land and France.—MouLr.e Observ
er.
{ A Bit of This and That t ;
A SONG WRITER’S ROMANCE.
Many an attorney has started life as a reporter.
Cameron Latter, of Chicago, must have been a reporter
before he took up the practice 'of law, says the Herald-
Examiner, of that city.
He filed a bi 11 for divorce the other day of Mrs.
Ethel Finkelstone, against Bernard Finkelstone, known
in Tin-Pan Alley as Bert Grant, composer of many
a popular ballad. He tells the story graphically in
his bill as follows:
“The defendant herein is a devotee, for hire, of
the muse Calliope—that is to say, he is a song writer,
and the productions of this said muse have at various
times in the artistic history of this country blared
forth and tinkled forth on every Victrola, pianola and
street piano in the nation, and the syncopated melo
dies which are his brain children have with the aid
of the song plugger and other devotees peculiar to the
Tin-Pan Alley made the said defendant a household
word from Hoboken to Oakland.
“Your oratri x began her married life to the sus
picious tune of ’The Bluebird.’ This, according to
Maeterlinck, is the symbol of happiness, but in the
case of your oratrix, judging from results, the said
defendant must have had in mind when composing this
classic not the bluebird of the Belgian dramatist, but
the cold bird whose habitat is (or was) in the Broad
way district, which is not the symbol of happiness.
“Your oratrix further swears that shortly after
the marriage in March, 1917, the said defendant be
gan to indulge in violent sallies of passies, illustrat
ing upon the person, of your oratrix the pleasant
conceits of another productions of his tuneful and fa
cile pen entitled ‘lf I knock the L Out of Kelly’ and
confusing your oratrix with the hero of said ballad.
“Your oratrix further represents that thereafter,
in accordance with another song of the said defend
ant entitled ‘Love Me At Twilight,’ your oratrix had
loved and awaited the homecoming of the said defend
ant for many months, from twilight to daylight, and
in keeping with another favorite entitled ‘Arrah Go On,
I Wanna Go Back to Oregon,’ the said defendant
packed up his numerous impediments and went West.
Whether he reached Oregon or not your oratrix is un
able to say.
“Your oratrix further represents that thereafter
the said defendant was for a time in repentant spirit,
engenedered by a lucidly sober interval, the reason for
which your oratrix cannot account except by the theory
of accident, or mistake on the part of the said defend
ant, but this was terminated in a few days by anoth
er breaking of the drought, which has continued to
date, his valedictory being in substance worded as
the title of another of his classic productions known
as ‘Don't Blame It All On Broadway.’ ”
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