mmmMWS^smi. only, and is subject to a fine of TWO CENTS a day thereafter. It will be due on the day indicated bel' DATE DUE CARD. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries http://www.archive.org/details/selectbibliograp02well PAMPHLETS ON THE COUNTRY CHURCH vol A SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY ON THE COUNTRY CHURCH Rev. George Frederick Wells, Research Secretary, Department of Christian Sociology, Drew Theological Seminary Abbott, E. H., Religious Life in America, chaps. 3, 7, 8, 14. New York: The Outlook Co. (This book touches the problem vitally and strongly.) Anderson, W. L., The Church in Depleted Towns. 107th annual report of the Massachusetts Home Missionary Society, May, 1905. Boston: 14 Beacon Street. Anderson, W. L., The Country Town. 307 pp. New York: Baker & Taylor, 1906. $1 net. (Probably the best book on the country prob- lem.) Anderson, Rev. Wilbert L., D.D., The Rural Mind, in The Hoiiiletic Review, July, 1909. Anthony, A. W., D.D., The Problem of the New England Country Church, in The Homiletic Review, July, 1899, pp. 23-29. (A first-hand study of religious conditions in Maine.) Anthony, Alfred Williams, Circular of Informa- tion for 1910. The Interdenominational Com- mission of Maine. (Address the Editor at Lewis- ton, Me.) Ashenhurst, Rev. J. O., The Day of the Country Church. New York: Funk & Wagnalls Co., Sept., 1910. (A fairly adequate discussion of the subject.) Babcock, W. H., A Statement of the Principles and Methods of the Religious Department of the Country Work of the Young Men's Christian Associations. 18 pp. New York: 124 E. 28th Street, 1907. Bailey, L. H., Ph.D., The State and the Farmer. 177 pp. New York: Macmillan Co., 1908. (This book touches vital country-church interests.) Barnes, L. C, D.D., Cooperation for the Sake of the Evangelized in America. Annual Report of the Federal Council of the Churches, 1909. New York: 82 Bible House. (A valuable discussion of country-church relationships.) Beard, A. S., D.D., The Story of John Frederic Oberlin. Boston: Pilgrim Press, 1909. §1.25. (This book is invaluable to all religious rural workers.) Bone, R. E., Reconstruction of the Country School, in The Assembly Herald, Sept., 1910. Philadel- phia: 1328 Chestnut Street. (A most valuable article on the country church and school in cooperation.) Boyd, A. K. H., The Recreation of a Country Par- son. 442 pp. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1861. (An old book that has much flavor and helpful- ness.) Boyle, J. E., The Passing of the Country Church, in The Outlook, May 28, 1904. Bullock, S. F., An Irish Experiment, in The Monthly Review, Jan., 1906, pp. 77-88. (A report upon actual conditions of positive bet- terment.) Butterfield, K. L., Chapters in Rural Progress. 251 pp. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1908. SI. (It contains excellent descriptions of rural betterment movements.) Butterfield, K. L., The Church of the Country- man, in The Congregationalist, July 31, 1909. Butterfield, K. L., The Task of the Country Church, in Hartford Seminary Record, Jan., 1910. Cady, J. C, Church Federation. What is It? Leaflet of the Federal Council of Churches. New York: 82 Bible House. Calkins, Raymond, Forward Steps in Church Federation, in The Congregationalist, Feb. 8, 1908. Conn, G. W., Federation of Rural Social Forces, in Charities, Nov. 3, 1908. Carver, Prof. Thomas N., Rural Economy as a Factor in the Success of the Church. Depart- ment of Social and Public Service, Bulletin No. 4, 20 pp. Boston: American Unitarian Associa- tion, 25 Beacon Street. Dike, S. W., LL.D., The Religious Problems of the Country Town, in Andover Review, Aug., 1884, pp. 121-132; Jan., 1885, pp. 38-46; June, 1885, pp. 54-553; Sept., 1885, pp. 194-208. (One of the best discussions in print on the problem.) Dorion, E. C. E., The Mountaineers of Northern New England, in The Christian Advocate, New York, Feb. 13, 1908. Earp, E. L., Ph.D., The Conservation of Chris- tian Resources. New York: Methodist Men, 150 Fifth Ave., Feb., 1910. Editorial, A Country Church, in The World's Work, New York, Aug., 1910. Editorial, Is the Country Church Passing? in The Congregationalist, Boston, Aug. 20, 1910. Editorial, New Light on the Country Church, in The Standard, July 30, 1910. Eggleston, N. H., Villages and Village Life. New York, 1878. (This book has some suggestions to ministers.) Emery, Rev. W. Stanley, Five Years of Country Settlement Work. (Pamphlet, 1905. Address the author at Tilton, N. H.) Emrich, F. E., D.D., The Problem of New Eng- land, in The Home Missionary, Nov., 1904. Fairbanks, Rev. Henry, Ph.D., The Needs of the Rural Districts. Address published by the Evangelical Alliance of the United States, New York, 1889. Fairbanks, Rev. Henry, Ph.D., The Problem of the Evangelization of Vermont. Minutes — and Pamphlet Supplement — of the first annual meet- ing of Congregational ministers and churches of Vermont, held at Randolph, Vt., 1886; Mont- pelier, Vt., 1887. Galloway, T. W., Country Church Problem Ana- lyzed, in The Interior, July 23, 1910. Gilbert, G. H., D.D., How One Man Saved a Town, in The Outlook, Apr. 18, 1908, pp. 873- 878. Gladden, Rev. Washington, D.D., The Christian League of Connecticut. New York: Century Co., 1883. 192 pp. (An excellent discussion of essential principles.) Gladden, Washington, D.D., The Christian Pastor and the Working Church. New York, 1898. (This book has some chapters concerning rural conditions.) Goodenough, A. H., D.D., How to Reach the Rural Population, in The Christian Advocate, Dec. 29, 1904. Harris, Rev. J. Morgan (Callao, Mo.), Country Church Problems, in The Homiletic Review, Aug., 1910. Vol. LX., No. 2, pp. 120-122, New York: Funk & Wagnalls Co., 44-60 East 23d St. Hartt, R. L., A New England Hill Town, in The Atlantic Monthly, 1899, pp. 561, 712. (Pessi- mistic in tone, but very suggestive.) Hartt, R. L., The Regeneration of Rural New Eng- land, in The Outlook, Mar. 3, 10, 17, 31, 1900. (Somewhat radical, but worth reading.) Haywood, C. E., Institutional Work for the Country Church. Burlington, Vt.: Burlington Free Press Association. 50 cents. (A practical handbook for country pastors.) Heermance, E. L., Democracy in the Church. Boston: Pilgrim Press, 1906. (A timely treat- ment of church activity and methods of union.) Henderson, C. R., Social Duties from the Chris- tian Point of View. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1909. (The book has a chapter on social duties in rural communities.) Hill, E. P., D.D., Cooperation in Home Missions. Pamphlet, 10 pp. New York: 82 Bible House, 1908. Hooker, G. E., The Problem of Interdenomina- tional Comity Among Country Churches in Home Missionary Territory. Christianity Prac- tically Applied. Report of Chicago Conference of the Evangelical Alliance, 1893, pp. 390-404. STUDIES IN THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM Hoyt, A. S., The Call of the Country Church. Pamphlet edited by J. R. Mott, 124 East 28th Street, New York, 1909. Huey, S. G., The Country Church Problem, in "Winona Echoes," 1907, pp. 87-96. Winona, Ind. Hutchens, H. L., Rural Town Decadence in Con- necticut. Address before the New Haven Min- isters' Meeting, Feb. 23, 1903. Hyde, W. D., LL.D., Church Union a Necessity, in The Forum, Apr., 1893. Hyde, W. D., LL.D., Impending Paganism in New England, in The Forum, June, 1892. Hyde, William DeWitt, The Social Mission of the Country Church. Minutes of the National Coun- cil of the Congregational Churches of the United States, Portland, Oct., 1901, pp. 223. Hyde, W. D., LL.D., The Transformation of New England. Is it Decay or Development? in The Forum, Mar., 1893. Kennedy, A. J., Religious Overlapping, in The Independent, Apr. 9 and May 7, 1908. (An effective article upon the need of religious co- operation.) Kingsley, Fanny Eliza, Letters and Memories of Charles Kingsley. Two volumes in one. Phila- delphia: J. D. Morris. (One of the greatest books ever written on rural reconstruction by the greatest of rural pastors.) Landis, Rev. Edward B., The Rural Church, in Religious Education, Dec, 1909. Chicago: 72 East Madison Street. MacFarland, C. S., Editor, The Christian Minis- try and the Social Order. 303 pp. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1909. $1.25. (This book has Dr. W. L. Anderson's valuable article, "The Minister and the Rural Commu- nity.") McGarrah, A. F., Raising Money in the Country Church, in The Herald and Presbyter, May 4, 1910. Miller, G. A., Problem of the Town Church. New York: Revell, 1902. (A book of town church methods.) Mott, John R., The Future Leadership of the Church. New York: 1908, $1. (The book offers many valuable suggestions to church workers.) Nesmith, G. T., The Rural Church, in The Amer- ican Journal of Sociology, May, 1903. (A good general discussion, having also a bibliography.) Newcomb, Harvey, The Harvest and the Reap- ers. Boston: Gould & Lincoln, 1858. (An old book which shows that the rural problem and skilful studies are no new thing.) Newhouse, S. S., D.D., Reconstructing the Coun- try Church, in The Herald of Gospel Liberty, Sept. 22, 1910. (This article gives a splendid emphasis upon reconstructive forces.) Parsons, E. Dudley, How the Rural Pastor Keeps Busy, in The Congregationalist, Feb. 19, 1910. Pease, C. B. F., An Endowed Country Church, in The Assembly Herald, Sept., 1910. Philadel- phia: 1328 Chestnut Street. (This issue of The Assembly Herald has several valuable articles on the country church.) Plass, Norman, The Problem of the Country Church. Christianity Practically Applied. Re- port of the Chicago Conference of the Evangel- ical Alliance, 1893, pp. 379-389. Pressey, E. P., The Vision of New Clairvaux. Ad- dress the author, Montague, Mass. $1. (A book which touches some vital principles.) Prime, W. C, Country Churches in New England, in The New Princeton Review, Sept., 1886, pp. 184-202. Proceedings of the Conference on the Problems of the Rural Church in New England. Meeting held in Boston, Jan. 18, 19, 1909. Report of N. E. Country Church Associations. Address H. K. Rowe, Newton Centre, Mass. Ramsdell, T. J., Christian Cooperation in Maine, in The Outlook, Jan. 1, 1898. Raymond, F. W., The Church of Christ in Rural- ville, in Yale Divinity Quarterly, Feb., 1909, pp. 223-232. Report of the Country Life Commission. Senate Document No. 705. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1909. (This report is an expert discussion of the country church and its field.) Richards, L. E., The Social Possibilities of a Country Town. Publications of the Christian Social Union, No. 44, Dec. 15, 1897. Philadel- phia: Twelfth and Walnut Streets. Roads, Charles, D.D., Rural Christendom. 322 pp. Philadelphia: American Sunday School Union, 1909. 90 cents. (A suggestive and helpful book for the country pastor.) Root, Rev. E. T., Is One Church the Ideal for Small Towns? in The Congregationalist, Aug. 24, 1907. Root, Rev. E. T., Overcoming our Overlapping, in The Home Missionary, Nov., 1908. (Thisisoneof many authoritative articles by Mr. Root on the problem of unifying rural religious forces.) Root, Rev. E. T., What's the Matter with the Churches? in The Delineator, Dec, 1909. Ruliffson, Rev. E. J., A Sensible Merging of Churches, in The Christian Intelligencer, July 27, 1910. (Report of Organic Union at Breaka- been, N. Y.) Rural Manhood. Magazine on Country Life. Published by County Department, Y. M. C. A., 124 East 28 Street., New York. 50 cents. (The best publication in America on rural religious work and indispensable to country pastors.) Selected Bibliography on the Country Church Problem, 8 pp., Sept., 1909. An annotated list of standard writings prepared by a committee of the New England Country Church Associa- tion. H. K. Rowe, Newton Centre, Mass. Strong, Josiah, D.D., The New Era. New York: Baker & Taylor, 1898. $1. (This book has greatly stimulated work in country churches.) Taylor, Graham, D.D., The Civic Function of the Country Church, in The Chautauquan Magazine, Dec, 1902, pp. 274-278. Thomas, Rev. John T., Jr., The Federal Council of Churches in the West, in The Assembly Her- ald, Aug., 1910, pp. 381-382. Philadelphia: 1328 Chestnut Street. Thwing, C. F., D.D., The Working Church, 1889. (In the last chapter the country church prob- lem is analyzed.) Titus, Edward Kirk, Overchurched Conditions in a Hill Town, in The Congregationalist, Dec. 11, 1909. Travis, J. M., The Rural Church, in The West- minster Review, Sept. 15, 1906. (An illumina- ting and instructive article.) Tunis, John, The Practical Treatment of the Prob- lem of the Country Church, in The Andover Review, Sept., 1888. Ufford, A. F., Problems of the Semi- Rural Church, in The Watchman, Boston, Oct. 17, 1907. Vincent, J. H., D.D., The Modern Sunday-School. New York: Eaton & Mains. $1. (Chapter 17 on rural Sunday-schools is important.) Wallace, Henry, The Opportunity of the Country Minister, in Wallace's Farmer, Sept. 9, 1910. Weeks, N. A., The Regeneration of Rural Iowa, in The Outlook, Jan. 9, 1900. Wells, Rev. George Frederick, Better Country Churches. Agriculture in Vermont. First Annual Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture of the State of Vermont. Montpelier, 1909, pp. 56-65. Wells, Rev. G. F., Bishop Hall and Church Unity, in The Congregationalist, Jan. 20, 1910. Wells, Rev. G. F., The Country Church, Cyclopedia of American Agriculture, vol. 4. New York: Macmillan Company, 1909. (A comprehensive analysis of conditions and discussion of principles.) Wells, Rev. G. F., How Two Country Churches Became One, in The Watchman, Mar. 17, 1910, pp. 9-11. Wells, Rev. G. F., The Status of Rural Vermont. 68 pp. Reprint and in Twenty-third Vermont Agricultural Report, 1903. Montpelier, Vt.: Vermont State Library. STUDIES IN THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM Wells, Rev. G. F., A Study in Local Church Feder- ation, in The Methodist Review, July-Aug., 1910. Vol. 92, No. 4, pp. 615-618. 150 Fifth Ave., New York. Wells, Rev. G. F., Vermont and the Rural Church, in The Northwestern Christian Advocate, Mar. 23, 1910. Wells, Rev. G. F., Writings on Practical Country Church Problems, in The Homiletic Review, Aug., 1909. (A somewhat exhaustive bibliog- raphy up to its date.) Wiedensall, Robert, Argument the Ceunty Work of the Young Men's Christian Association. 20 pp. New York: 124 East 28th Street, 1904. Wilson, W. H., Ph. D., The Communal Revival of the Country Church. 6 pp. Leaflet of the De- partment of Church and Labor. Presbyterian Church. New York: 156 Fifth Ave. (Dr. Wilson is a leading writer and worker in the country, church field.) Wilson, W. H., Ph.D., Quaker Hill. 168 pp. May be secured from the author, 156 Fifth Ave., New York, 1907. $1.10. (An interesting sociolog- ical study of a country township.) Wilson, W. H., Ph.D., The Standard of Country Life. 8 pp. Leaflet, 1909. (A stimulating dis- cussion of country church functions.) Wright, G. F., D.D., LL.D., The Country Church, in Bibliotheca Sacra, Apr., 1890. THE SOCIAL-CENTER MOVEMENT IN OTHER CITIES Fkom The Common Ground, Rochester New York. — While school buildings are used in more tha-n one hundred cities as places for the giving of public lectures, in no other city has this become so extensive and systematic as in New York. Under Dr. Henry M. Leipziger it has grown to be a veritable "university of the people." In the year 1908-9 there were delivered, in 169 centers throughout New York City, public lectures on 1,575 different subjects before 5,715 audiences, by a staff of 641 lecturers, the total attendance being 1,213,116. New York City also has the most highly elaborate and efficiently organized public-school recrea- tion centers in the country. Thirty buildings are used as places where boys or girls over fourteen years of age find opportunity for gymnasium and athletic training, games, reading, folk dancing, as well as parliamen- tary drill and quiet study. The attitude of the school authorities in New York is illus- trated by the statement of Superintendent Maxwell, " As President Eliot has pointed out, there can be no waste of money in public- school administration comparable to the waste involved in permitting millions of dol- lars' worth of property to remain unutilized except during the hours when school is kept." Philadelphia. — Fifty school buildings are used in Philadelphia as recreation and lecture centers under the direction of the Home and School Association in cooperation with the Board of Education. The work, begun primarily to bridge the chasm between the school and the home, is rapidly broadening to make the school building a center for the use of all people. Pittsburg. — During this past season in Pittsburg the social-center use of the school buildings has begun on lines similar to those followed in Rochester. Three school build- ings in various parts of the city were equipped and opened for neighborhood uses. Cleveland. — The Cleveland Board of Education has a " Committee on Lectures and Social Center Development." As the name of this committee suggests, Cleveland regards the use of school buildings as lecture centers as only a beginning. Columbus. — For several years school-ex- tension work has been conducted on a small scale in Columbus with the idea of demon- strating to the city some of the undeveloped resources which it has in school property. Recently Mr. E. S. Martin, of Racine, Wis- consin, has been engaged as supervisor of "Public Recreation and Social Education" and the work in Columbus bids fair, very quickly to lead among the smaller cities of the country. Buffalo. — The new Hutchinson High School in Buffalo is planned not only as an educational plant for young people, but also to serve as a well-equipped social center. Los Angeles. — The last number of the Pacific Outlook of Los Angeles carries the report of the committee appointed to con- sider social centers and to make recommen- dations for school extension in Los Angeles. This committee, after a careful investigation of the developments in various cities through- out the country, gives an outline of the Rochester social-eenter plan, indorses it and recommends the adoption of similar plans in Los Angeles. Baltimore. — As yet the school-extension movement has made but a slight beginning in Baltimore. There are, however, a number of people in that city who are greatly inter- STUDIES IN THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM ested in the possibilities of this movement and there is determination there. But better than determination they have at least one man who believes in demonstration. Largely through his agency an old school building has been secured and club work started for the young people of the neighborhood. The beginning has been made and so far it is successful. Cambridge. — There is a vigorous school- extension committee of twenty-three mem- bers in Cambridge which reports, after a careful investigation and after making tenta- tive beginnings, that "there can be no doubt that all sections of our people wish their schoolhouses to be used as much as possible in every proper way." Boston. — In Boston the school-extension movement has hitherto been supported chiefly by the great Home and School Association of that city. Largely through their coopera- tion twenty-two school buildings have been put to use as neighborhood meeting-places. With a view to learning the experience of other cities Mr. J. W. De Bruyn, the Super- visor of School Extension in Boston, made an extended tour during the past season. In the careful Boston method the New England Educational League has been holding con- ferences upon "The Utilization of School Buildings" in the Boston University with a view to collecting information and propaga- ting the movement. Milwaukee. — Public lectures, under the auspices of the Board of School Directors, were authorized by an act of the legislature of Wisconsin, passed in 1901. The next year began the giving of public lectures in Mil- waukee, which city has developed a compre- hensive and well-rounded system, second only to that given under the Board of Educa- tion in New York. Last winter twenty-five school buildings were used for this purpose. In addition to the lecture courses, three school buildings, equipped for various recrea- tional and social purposes, have been opened as social centers for the communities and the use of the school buildings has been granted freely for meetings " to assist in the molding of that civic patriotism which leads to ac- tivity along the lines of municipal better- ment." The social and civic activities are carried on in Milwaukee to some extent in connection with the evening schools, giving classes in basketry, sewing, dressmaking, music, etc., as well as providing opportunities for debates, literary programs, dramatics, the borrowing of books, physical training, and recreation. In his last report, the President of the Milwaukee Board of School Directors quotes approvingly from the 1908 School Board report of New York City: "In its relation to the civic body the center has be- come only second in importance to the public school." Chicago. — While other cities have made use of the already existing public property for the development of recreational, civic, and social-center activities, Chicago has led the world in the establishment of specially built and equipped Field Houses and grounds. Of these Chicago has now thirteen, which it has developed at a cost of more than $11,000,000. There is, however, in Chicago a strong move- ment for the equipping and opening of school buildings for neighborhood uses. During this past season the use of three buildings has begun. The experiment has been regarded as successful from every point of view and Chicago has now a school-extension committee of which the superintendent of schools is one member, which is studying the social-center developments in various cities throughout the country, looking forward to the extensive opening of Chicago school buildings for neighborhood uses. Syracuse. — The newly-elected President of the School Board, Mr. T. A. Levi, after a visit to the Rochester social centers, said: "I am deeply interested in the wider use of public schools. We have no social centers in Syracuse, such as you have in Rochester, but we have a few clubs for boys and some parents' clubs. I am much in favor of the work of social centers." There is, in Syra- cuse, at least one organization using the school building as a meeting-place, which has in it much of the spirit of the Rochester Men's Civic Clubs. This is the East Side Improve- ment Association, which holds fortnightly meetings for the promotion of the interests of the citizens, at the Lincoln School. The annual banquets of this association, which are held in the school, average an attendance of two hundred and the organization has proved there, what the Civic Clubs have shown in Rochester, that citizens may be trusted in the free use of school plants.