Saint Mary's beacon., 1916-07-20
COUNTRY LIFE LESSONS
FOR MARYLAND MINISTER'S
Annual Country Life Conferences And
School AZ Their state College OF
AgrIeulture The Source OF
Much Practical Benefit.

Progressive rural ministers OF Mary
land have come to look forward With
much anticipation to their annual
country life conference as guests Of
the State College Of Agriculture. In
this conference many earnest workers,
pafplexed with the problems Of min.
istry IN rural Maryland, have found
Inspiration and opportunity to learn
new ways Of solving old problems or
pronting by tho example OF others.
have gone baek TO their own particular
fields with renewed hope and energy.
The intensely practical nature Of this
conference appeals ID the rural min.
lister. who has neither time nor money
70 waste IN attending purely inspira.
tionai conferences or TO listen to the.
nretlcai Instruction The occasion Is
4 definite conference OF Maryland
ministers an opportunity for them re.
Eardless Of sect or creed. 10 get to.
Fethef on the common essentials of
every day country life. and work ont
their comI6on salvation and that Of
their several commuhitles The add.
tion Of country life school extending
over the period Of a week preceding
the conference itself has added much
70 the value of the latter. Many a
minister unfamIllar with rural condI.
tlnns and farming practices has the
opportunity to post himself on these
matters. and is thus enabled 70 discusa
more intelligentiy the economic fea-
tures 0f rural ministry More and
more The life of country minister
appeals 70 tho intelliRen, Young man
a. an end III lsself instead of AZ 4
Ftcppinw stone to city church More
and more be realizes that the man
who Is qgaIifed 70 effect The physical
regeneration Of his community Il bet.
ter ftted 70 be ia spiritual leader
Champion OF Country life.
This thought ls VOL expressed in
the statement ~ the Rev VIM 4 Ger.
hard. of Frederick county. regarding
thc FasNsion of tho conference
"A spgKeaslon was made 10 me re.
Gently that very often IN our country
schools the teacher u q city.bred boy
or girl. and the ideas and the ideals
of that TEACHER are entirely connected
with 1he elty. and be- or she 81 con.
ntantly pfesentlnE before the pupils
those ideals The suggestion i made
that one reason why there Is such 4
tendency Tor boys and girls 10 10 70
the city Is because they have imbibed
their ideals from the teacher
Thht il true somewhat u the min.
isiry Most ot the ministers ara
.ttaiBed n !Hs,llniiona that arr located
IN the etly. aud ssen q thss were
born IN and spent their early years II
tho country, yet, they wore associated
with eiiy ideals Ia their courses and
they hold them up before The country,
One u the needr. believe. IA the
vision of the country on the part Of
the school teacher and the country
lpinlsteF. and "a suRgested. think. IN
thls program. that the ministers
should not make the country ministry
a pteppiugstone FOR city field but
that they should make tho country
ministry their life work and that they
should hold up ideals before the young
people of the wonderful opportunities
of The country and of country HE"
Tho Country Life Conference for
1916 vii be IN session August IA. DO.
ins preceded by a Country Iife school
beglnnlng July ~. announcements re-
garding which are being isaued By
secretary of The Conference organlza
tion, b II Darrow. College Park, Nd.