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the school buildings for the other activities of the community ; by organizing a village improvement society to help attain all the ends of village welfare ; by stimulating the organization of a Grange and a farmers' institute to help the more isolated mem- bers of the community realize complete living ; or, if these organizations already exist, co-operating with them in the feder- ation of all the social forces of the community ; by causing the erection, if need be, of a central building in the village as a center of the civic, spiritual, social, and intellectual life of the community, where all of its uplifting elements may meet in closer union, sympathy, and co-operation ; by making the church building a center of rural inspiration and regeneration through a clergy competent, confident of God, and consecrated to his service; a church building constructed in harmony with the activities of social and individual welfare ; a polity and technique adapted to the needs of the community; a piety cultivated as a social interest, and not as an isolated selfish life ; a doctrine interpreted in terms of life ; and a salvation, social as well as individual.

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MARTINEAU. "Christianity without Priest and without Ritual," in Studies.

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MATHEWS, SHAILER. The Social Teachings of Jesus.

GLADDEN. Applied Christianity, chap. 5.

Social Facts and Forces, chap. 6.

The Christian Pastor, chap. 20.

MEADE. Modern Methods of Church Work, pp. 147 ff. HEYWOOD, C. E. Institutional Work for the Country Church. STRONG, JOSHUA. Our Country, chaps. 10, n. The New Era, chaps. 8, 15.

Religious Movements for Social Betterment, pp. 25 ff.

WARD, J. A. The Church in Modern Society, chaps. 1 1, 12. DORCHESTER. Problem of Religious Progress.