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Show RURALSEGTIONS HE IN NEED OF'1 GREATJEVIVAL Dean of College of Agriculture Agricul-ture of University of Illinois Illi-nois Says Country Folk Will Win Own Salvation CHAMPAIGN. 111.. May t "Th rural illatrlrU ned a rwU rcvlvftl In ri'Uicfniia Intrreffta anil It la coming rnpl.lly. particularly through tha younjc nop traln"d both In aortilar nd rrlljrlous matt," Kurn Inv-njKrt, Inv-njKrt, Ian of th coll of agriculture agri-culture of th t'nlvralty of Mllnola. told th Conicrica.tlunal conference of Ullnola today. "The county folk will. Ilka vry other large rnuu, ultimately work out their own aalvntlon." he continued. "Thev nn le Kratly helper, from the nutaldp If thy cm hiiva competent worker, hut the only leadcrahtp that rouiitn la (he lTtWhlp of the. hl(heat Ki-iide mn nnd women, j "It la a re tl rmn'p Job. In which I wlitdrim combined it h high achnUr-ahlp achnUr-ahlp muat he coupled with Intelligent uirthodN nnd a re.il appreciation of country life "No thinking man can IW aattafld with the reliKloua life of the oien country. It la going through a tranal-tlun tranal-tlun period foi lowing the Intent de-nom de-nom Inn tlona Hum of a half century a no, when more churchca wer hut 1 1 than could ponnibly he aupported or were needed to at-rve the puhlic. It waa Inevitable that emc of them ehmild h- converted to' other purpoSM. Thia fact of Itaclf doca not mean deca dence. "The eltle are hut al w1v adjusting t'lemaelvf to the new order of re-llgloua re-llgloua thought and church activity. Naturally, the country will move even more alowly than the cltv. but excellent ex-cellent begin n!nga have been made and w have everv reaaon to look forward to a generation of remarkable, remark-able, progreaa In building up the religious re-ligious life of the country." The Immediate and moat urgent need of the rural church. Pean Davenport an Id, waa w t!l qualified nilnlNtTa, The aoclal and spiritual le." dcrahlp of a com m unity la not a tank llKhtly to be thrust upon the nhouldera nf on unqualified by apecial tratn'ng for audi reaponib!llty, but aiudf-nta endowed with apeclal ahlllth-a f ir the work ahould seriously .-onaitlcr their ob I nation to acrve, he aaid College trained men were ea-periiilly ea-periiilly n'4'dct at present in all section sec-tion of the country. |