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Title: Country life and the country school : a study of the agencies of rural progress and of the social relationship of the school to the country community
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Carney, Mabel, b. 1885
Subjects: Schools Rural schools Country life
Publisher: Chicago : Row, Peterson and Co.
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Connecticut Libraries

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lding of an institutional or social-service church. Institutionalism should not be overdone inthe country because habits of cooperation, rather than thoseof individualism, need to be established among farmers. Caremust be exercised at all times, therefore, to keep the wholechurch unified, no matter how many clubs, leagues, societies,and organizations cluster under its roof. When this is done,the more activity developed the better. One of the mostideal local country churches in the United States is theDuPage Presbyterian Church, near Plainfield, Illinois. This THE COUNTRY CHURCH 63 church is a true country church, being located out on theopen prairie six miles from any town. Reverend Matthew B.McNutt, the efficient minister who is chiefly responsible forthe unusual developments that have occurred here during histwelve years of residence in the community, is a leader amongmen and has already found a national reputation thrust uponhim because of the helpful suggestion of his service. The
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The DuPage Presbyterian Church, Will County, Illinois personal account of his work as quoted here from a leafletissued by the Young Peoples )Missionary ^Movement of theUnited States and Canada will be a revelation to many. I resolved first of all, when I went to DuPage, that I would getnext to the boys and girls; that I would make that old church a greatcenter of attraction. Notice I did not say the great center. I do notbelieve in the church attempting to do everything or trying to dothings that might better be left to other institutions. But I would 64 COUNTRY LIFE AND THE COUNTRY SCHOOL make it a great center of attraction; a hub of joys, of happy memoriesand associations for that entire community. I determined, with Godshelp, to make it an indispensable institution to every man, woman, andchild within its reach. I set to work, first, and organized an old-fashioned singing school.It might have been anything else just as well—a class in scientificfarming, animal husbandry, domesti

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