The Country Church And the Rural Problem : the Carew Lectures At Hartford Theological Seminary, 1909
The Country Church And the Rural Problem : the Carew Lectures At Hartford Theological Seminary, 1909
Butterfield, Kenyon L. (Kenyon Leech), 1868-1935
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In the city there are many: the individual can pass from one to another. Things are reduced to simpler terms in the coimtry. This has its advantages, but it tends to blight budding ideals or to drive them out for development elsewhere — ^usually in the city. As a consequence the rural community is in constant danger of stagnation — of settling down into the easy chairs of satisfaction. Rural life needs constant stimulus of imported ideas — a stimulus of suggestion apart from its daily routine. ...Moreover, rural ideals sometimes lack breadth and variety. Life in the coimtry easily be- comes monotonous, himadnmi. It needs broad- ening, as well as elevating. It needs variety, gaiety. But these changes can find their proper stimulus only in motives that are high Digitized by Google THE TASK OF THE COUNTRY CHURCH 77 and worthy. Hence an appeal must be made for the cultivation of ideals of personal develop- ment and neighborhood advancement. When ideals do come into coimtry life, they are apt to be not indigenous, but urban notions transplanted bodily.
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