The Country Church in the New World Order

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: democratic principles, leadership of a highly consecrated type, but both on a community basis.1 The reader who desires to study the solution of this problem is urged to procure Professor C. J. Galpin's new book, "Rural Life." RURAL COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION CHAPTER VI RURAL COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION The watchword of the d

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emocratic movement which the War has revealed as permeating to every corner of our land from Alaska to the Gulf is the word "community." The slogan of all successful social building has been the same word. Even in the largest city of our continent social problems are being expressed in community terms, and New York realizes that the Chelsea neighborhood, the lower East Side, and Greenwich Village must each be treated separately, and each as a community. Those who are at work in rural fields have long realized that it is necessary to get neighbors to realize their community of interests if substantial progress is to be made in removing the obstacles that bar the way of advance. In the field of rural social endeavor a community includes those who have the largest number of common interests centering in one place. Its territory may be determined by a team haul1 or by an auto haul distance in some sections, or it may be narrowed by the poorroads or the successful competition of a nearby town. In the last analysis the boundaries of a community are fixed more often by economic forces than by geographic, though the educational and religious interests of the community are usually coterminous with the economic. Practically every rural community must include the village which is its mail and shipping point. 'Warren H. Wilson, "The Evolution of a Country Community." The community being taken as the social unit, organization and leadership are discovered to ... --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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