The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-10-19
FARM LIFE WAS.
THE MAIN QUESTION
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are now machinery inc these
gang plows and binders do not go to
cnurch nor do they expect to go to
heaven. SO that the weaker churches
are going to the wall. We have sta
tistics based on u surveys in
n country, which indicate that in
llllnois in the past twenty years over
LOO country churches have been
abandoned and in Missouri over $50
have been closed for good. With this
perishing of the unfit, there has been
a new type of church evolved, a type
which is teaching the religion of the
common human wants.
Prof. Carver states in his new book,
h church which realizes that its
members must be made better farmers
and better citizens by reason of their
spirituality; that the more religious
they are the better crops they will
grow, the better stock they will keep
and the better neighbors they will
be. is the church which will deserve
70 succeed and in the end will succeed
We have a hopeful number of such
churches in the country, whose farm
ers farm by their religion and pray
first of all prayers that they may uc-
coed as farmers. We have churches
where the farmers institute is carried
on by the church and in which the
farmers club allied closely with the
church. acts as a local forum for the
alseusslng OF better farming. These
churches and all like them of all de-
nominations are growing. They have
a olvlne right to grow. for the farmer.
VINO produces more and better raw
material With larger profit to himself
is Gods hired man.
secondly. we have in all denomina-
ions country churches which are
a new morality through the
deliberate use Of recreation. supcrvis-
ed and promoted by the church. These
.hnrches are centers for the life of
the common needs of the people.
Thirdly. the churches which are
surviving are teaching a doctrine OF
unity. The needed religion is one of
brotherhood among all good people in
the service of the community. The
modern country church will have a
religion for the worker. 1t will plead
Tor the farmers wife, who is an un-
paid worker in most homes. It will
pay a living wage to the minister and
expect him to earn it. 1t will respect
the farmers son and daughter with 2
part of the income"
Recreation and Home Life
one or the most necessary, yet most
neglected and unappreciated phases of
farm life, according to Mrs. Paul Clag-
stone Of GLADSTONE, Idaho, who spoke
on Recreation in the Home and the
community" is recreation for the far
mers family. Recreation" she said,
rs wrongfully considered a luxury in
many farm homes. A farm woman's
life should not be all drudgery and the
boys and girls should be given time
for recreation. Too many boys and
girls leave home because they see
nothing but work ahead of them for
the rest OF their lives while in the cities
families of their own financial standing
have comforts and amusements. The
TACT is that the country can furnish
even more pleasures than city life af-
fords." She advocated the expenditure
OF n little money for a pony for the
children. a few good magazines and
farm papers for the family and a
monograph to bring them in touch
with the best music, or to liven the
long winter evenings. A few good out.
door games for the boys, flowers for
the farmers wife and a revival of the
old are of making visits were recon-
mended as aids to relaxation.
The country church and the country
school are perhaps the greatest fac
life. with the Grange and the Farm
er's union a close second. Mrs. Clag-
stone gave a valuable suggestion, the
practicability Of which has been prov
en- in her own locality. Five school dis.
tricts. TOO difficulty of access for CEN
~tralization Of schools, have engaged a
teacher in domestic science and one
in manual training and each school ia
given one day IL the week for in.
struction and pays one-ifth Of the SAL
airy. This. Mrs. Clagstone afirms,
will mean much in tho hat%orpooo+ ~
country life, and should he taken up
throughout all country regions.
In conclusion she said: "Everyone
who can have children, a harden, a
horse to g when one wants run.
ming water and other conveniences,
will have far to look for a happier
place than the farm"