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Page 18 - THE EARTH is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.
Page 107 - A mere collection of dwelling-houses with their occupants does not make a community. The word "community" signifies a population-group which has become socially conscious and is working together as one body to satisfy common needs or ambitions. The real community is one that has organized its population, invented efficient social machinery, and has trained effective social engineers to make use of all its available resources for all the people within the community.1 In short, a com1 Edwin L.
Page 123 - Paradoxical as it may seem, it is a matter of actual observation that the sections of the country where the land is richest, where crops have been most abundant, where land has reached the highest price, and the farm-owners attain to the highest degree of prosperity, are the very sections from which the farm-owners are retiring from the farms most rapidly and leaving them to tenants.
Page 104 - ... development of these relations in our country districts. So it Is that the chief task of the rural reformer to-day is the creation of the Rural Community. Mr. George W. . Russell, in the Irish Homestead (whom I am tempted to call the greatest of rural sociologists) reminds us of our elemental weakness when he says that while we have had people living here and there in rural sections heretofore, we have not had rural communities...
Page 109 - ... one that has organized its population, invented efficient social machinery, and has trained effective social engineers to make use of all its available resources for all the people within the community.1 In short, a com1 Edwin L. Earp, "The Rural Church Serving the Community,
Page 127 - Health Conditions — Rural Hospital. 7. Committee on Women's Work. This next step in the Rural Life movement while consciously taken for the improvement of living in the open country, with an awakened rural consciousness and a strong rural organization, yet must be taken in the spirit of cooperation with the great industrial and commercial centers of population, lest our new rural civilization become selfish rather than serviceable to the whole country of which it is so vital a part. When we have...
Page 106 - ... center of the community is usually a village ranging in population from 300 to 3,000 people and it serves a community area ranging from 16 to 100 square miles. The people living in the village, on the whole, are engaged in business mainly to supply the needs of the outlying farm homes of that community. The village center is the pantry, safe, shop, medicine chest, play-house, altar, of the community at large. The village homes in thus serving the scattered homes of the rural population as social...
Page 104 - There, as I see it, is the whole situation in a nut-shell. Country people are in heart and mind just as progressive as city people, but have not the facilities for expressing the spirit of progress. The powerbelt of organization has not been attached to the throbbing dynamo of rural aspiration. Consider this fact, ladies and gentlemen, that the country community is the only social unit known to our civilization without machinery for self-expression and development. There is the Nation, with its government...
Page 54 - For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.
Page 131 - He is a bundle of possibilities of tremendous value to the community and the state. The conservation of the boy life of the countryside is the most important problem of the nation today, because as never before we need in this country a scientific agricultural population that can conserve the soil values of our rural domain, producing at the same time an increasing yield per acre of the necessary products for the • AliHtmc't of address recently delivered nt tlie Mnnmoutb Co., NJ, 1'imii Hoys