The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-01-11

a Utmost impossible TO get the crops to market
IL they were raised. Now good roads have
solved that problem. And the farmers
have gone still further. There Is a farmers
and merchants club which deals with the
commission men.
For years It has been part OF Hat fields
days work to teach people how to farm bet
ter. He has kept In touch with the school OF
agriculture at the University OF Missouri,
and the experts there have sent him farm
literature by the bushel basket.
II was Hatfield who first began talking
better live stock to his people. No sense
in raising hogs that weighed $50 pounds
when one could raise 700 and 500 Founders,
He induced an auctioneer to bring in some
bloodsd swine. The farmers bought them
almost before they were out OF the car,
Religion for Every Day In Week.
Hatfield himself has been an unbeiev eddy
big force In lettering his community. But
it's difficult to get him to talk about him
self He'll talk eagerly. however. about
his work aud about his church. A slender
quiet man Of 80 il Parson Hatfield, and for
all his earnestness there is a CLEAN VI humor
about his eyes and II smile upon his lips
that makes your heart warm to him,
We haven't much to show you in the
way OF church building. he told visitor
a little white frame church here and an
other one nine miles east. | haven't tried
TO get the people to build pretentious build
ings. That's all right enough OF course
but It isn't in the least essential It's what
goes on inside he church that counts. It's
what the church is doing for the community.
not only on sunday but on Monday. Tues
day. Wednesday. Thursday. Friday and
Saturday. 4 church ought to be vital
force in the everyday life OF "A community
and II can be-
you've got to show people you care
about them, and after they believe that
it's lot easier. We've got little baseball
team here In HOberg. | helped organize
IL. and I've played some myself when they
needed me. though I'm not much Of ball
player. They generally have me umpire
their games. Now. just to show YOU how
Y thing like that can help. | know one
man who started coming to church, not
because he believed in the church or was
interested a bit In what We were doing
but because his wife suggested to him that
II got out and umpired ball game to help
In the fun u was only a decent return
court esy for him to come down to my church
Sunday morning. He said that WAS fair
enough. and came.
"Our church here ia pretty small. 80 small
that we've been holding sabbath school out
under the trees all summer. But that's just
a minor Inconvenience, Wen get new
building by and by. The big thing Is to have
the church doing things that count. 1t
doesn't seem to me church IL half doing
Its duty by its people II Il only breaches the
Gospel and morality to them once or twice
aweek. II ought to be on the job every day
helping people mentally and physically as
well as spiritually. II ought to make them
healthier and happier and help them 10
help themselves. Some folk, espec tally
strangers. criticise that attitude OF course
They say. Mr.. Hatfield. you're trying TO do
too much. In getting all these things you'll
lose the spirituality Of your church
Didn't the Founder Of tho Christian
Church do that very same thing when lie
was on esrth9' the visitor was asked. Didn't
He get out among folk and cure the sick
and do a whole lot for people besides preach
to them? 1t never seemed to hnr! His
! certainly believe II IT," said Psrson Hat
field.