and Religion Movement

Complete in Seven Volumes; including the Revised Reports
of the Commissions presented at the Congress of the Men
and Religion Forward Movement, April, 1912, together
with the Principal Addresses Delivered at the Congress

VOLUME VI

The Rural Church

FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY

NEW YORK AND LONDON

COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY

THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF

YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONS

CONTENTS

BOOK I

PAGE

THE RURAL CHURCH OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

I SURVEY OF RURAL CIVILIZATION AND INSTI-

Warren H. Wilson I

TUTIONS.

II DESCRIPTION OF AN IDEAL RURAL CIVILIZA-

TION.

III THE MEANS AT HAND FOR THE DEVELOPMENT

OF AN IDEAL RURAL CIVILIZATION.

IV THE RURAL AWAKENING.

Henry Wallace 14

H. J. Waters 27

J. O. Ashenhurst 47

V COORDINATION OF ALL RURAL INSTITUTIONS.

Albert E. Roberts 60

VI THE SUPPLY OF LEADERS FOR THE COUNTRY.

Kenyon L. Butterfield 72

VII A LIVING WAGE FOR RURAL PASTORS.

VIII THE ENLARGING IDEAL OF

CHURCH

F. M. Barton 83

THE COUNTRY

E. S. Tipple 96

IX THE RELIGIOUS ASPECTS OF GETTING A LIVING

IN THE COUNTRY. Thomas Nixon Carver 109

X REMARKS ON PRESENTATION OF REPORT OF

COMMISSION. Henry Wallace, Chairman 119

BOOK II

SOCIAL RELIGION IN THE COUNTRY

I THE LITERATURE OF THE CHURCH AND COUN-

TRY LIFE MOVEMENT.

George Frederick Wells 141

II THE COUNTRY MINISTER. G. Walter Fiske 154

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VI THE COUNTRY CHURCH A SOCIAL CENTER.

Matthew Brown McNutt 201

VII BETTER CHURCH BUILDINGS-A NECESSITY.

N. W. Stroup 214

VIII THE VALUE OF RECREATION IN RURAL COM-

MUNITIES.

Myron T. Scudder 228

IX POVERTY AND DEGENERATION IN THE COUN-

TRY.

John R. Howard, Jr. 243

X WHAT COUNTRY MINISTERS HAVE DONE

Warren H. Wilson 259

BOOK I

THE RURAL CHURCH

OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY