Show IS RURAL CHURCH IN AMERICA DYING PERHAPS BUT NOT IN THIS TOWN A 1 ci 1 4 r 1 t f t 3 1 i 1 J 4 1 C bt n n W I In The Time C of or nai- nai Dais Calif line hall iu b n 1 I Inn as nn I IThe example of oC a n successful rural Insert Inert Is Ii nc fler W IV N X fiske 1 pastor tor 1 I D Dy Hi M 1 Sen Ice AVIS Calif March Hardy The 1 1 The DAVIS VIS little brown church In In the vain valo Is la dead The country church can not compete with the automobile the radio an and 1 all the other modern things that have h macl made life liCe on the farm Carm Such Is the I plaint from church church- churchmen churchmen J men all alt over r America But the tho Community church at Davis Is a success So much snuck of a success In fact Ca that the th Association of oC Church Boards of oC America t pre 11 Protest Protest- Protestant ant denominations hl ha has chosen the Community church a as lS a I laboratory and training school chool In al life ICo for tor the the- wem vrn wOrn wOrn- wern 1 t rn v 1 I Q be iOS r sl r rt t I for tor every denomination denomination and Ond creed creed and none of oC them successful 10 19 pay a resident or i Now Davis lia has hu only emily two Iwo a churches a CaU church church and the Community church church The Community church has has hns a membership of more than ore ole third ope-third I third pf pC the Persons persona a ing II in III Davis I attending the state agricultural tural lural college here and and living In Inthe Inthe Inthe the country surrounding the town More than half halt the professors at the college are officers or ac- ac ac active Live tive members of the tho church church The church furnishes Jobs tor young students who must work I their way through the college I It 11 gives them entertainment and andI I recreation motion motion pictures social life Among the tc students ar are many from Crom foreign countries and these are brought together In dinner meetings Not only Is la the th church success success- success full full ull enough to pay ReW Rev Re W N I Fiske I a living II salary but a newchurch new newchurch newchurch church coating Is being built |