Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Ohio Rural Life Survey, 1913: Country Churches of Distinction
In this story are included sketches of country churches in the State of Ohio which came under observation during the Ohio Rural Life Survey in the summers of 1912 and 1913. These churches impressed the investigators, who visited each community in the counties surveyed, with their distinction and efficiency. A successful church in the country wears no sign of being rural. It does not advertise farming. It has none of the complexion of a country life institute. It is just a church in a high state of efficiency. For while every church, urban, rural or foreign, reflects the social environment with the utmost precision, its own message is in all lands and places the same. The greater its efficiency, the more perfectly does it exhibit the signs of a gospel institution, a religious association, a society of spiritually minded pe0p1e. The reader must bear in mind that we make no attempt here to furnish a directory or cyclopedia. These are not all the successful churches in Ohio. We have attempted to make a selection, bearing in mind both type and denomination. Many other churches will be found in the state, whose people may recognize in the churches herein described their own work, and some of them are doing it better. It is the purpose of this story to help them see their own problem and to give them cheer and encouragement in work which sometimes seems to be commonplace and valueless. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
