Church Cooperation in Community Life

THE ABINGDON PRESS NEW YORK CINCINNATI

Copyright, 1921, by PAUL L. VOGT Printed in the United States of America

TO MY FATHER AND MOTHER WHOSE PUBLIC-SPIRITED AND LIFELONG LOYALTY TO RELIGIOUS WORK IN A COUNTRY COMMUNITY HAS BEEN A CONSTANT INSPIRATION TO CHRISTIAN SERVICE


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Many books have been written during the past few years on the rural church. Some of these have given excellent concrete illustrations of methods that are proving successful in solving local problems. Others have discussed the general rural church situation. The rural life movement, however, has been so rapid that it is believed that a brief restatement of the place of the church in the rural life movement is desirable at the present time.