+ Survey 44:731 S 15 ’20 300w The Times [London] Lit Sup p157 Mr 4 ’20 50w
GILL, CHARLES OTIS, and PINCHOT, GIFFORD. Six thousand country churches. il *$2 Macmillan 261
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“The authors whose work ‘The country church’ described rural church conditions in a county each of New York and Vermont, have thoroughly surveyed Ohio, its churches, ministers, education, crime, social life, denominationalism, and other features. They find too great a division into sects, and in some of the counties most needing religious instruction, a great number of ill-attended churches, with non-resident or poorly educated pastors. Community churches are recommended. Many maps make this book more graphic than the former volume.”—Booklist
“Perhaps the chief value of the work ... lies in its impartial exhibit of the zeal and stupidity of denominationalism gone to seed.” Allan Hoben
+ Am J Soc 26:377 N ’20 180w
“This book is indispensable to all who would attempt to shape the program for the living church in America during the next generation.”
+ Bib World 54:436 Jl ’20 170w Booklist 16:188 Mr ’20 Boston Transcript p6 Ja 21 ’20 1050w
“Some very practical and informing light on the subject of church federation is thrown by Charles Otis Gill and Gifford Pinchot, in ‘Six thousand country churches.’”