vision of the minister, who is generally the superior in education
of the laymen, and the social value of the meetings of the Sunday
school will be greater in the larger body. All the arguments which make
for the centralization of the day school have force for the
consolidation of Sunday schools in one large school.

The Sunday school offers a basis for church federation. In the community
it is frequently possible for Sunday schools to be united and for the
advantages of this common teaching to be made even greater because all
the children of the various churches are in one body. The best
leadership and the best teachers are thus secured and the community
spirit is cultivated through the young people and more loosely attached
members of the community.

The older classes of the Sunday school on a basis of study of the Bible
should be organized for practical ends. The adult Bible class can be
made to have all the influence of the grange in the country community.
The fathers and mothers of the community may meet throughout the week
socially. They may undertake together the study of the economic life of
the community. Lecturers from the agricultural college, representatives
of the Play Ground Movement, of the county work of the Y. M. C. A., of
historical societies interested in the community's past and other
representatives of national movements, may be welcomed and heard by this
organized class, the basis of which is religious education.

What I am urging may be accomplished by any church in some measure,
however divided the community may be. It is the business of the
individual church which has a vision of the community as a whole to act
as if it were a federation of churches. Frequently ministers are in
favor of church federation, as if that process were an end in itself.
The writer believes that the individual church can accomplish the ends
of federation if the union of churches can do so. The best means for
effecting federation of churches is to practise the program of
federation until it shall come about.

The community made up in a degree of new families and the community in
which the newcomers are young men and women, children of the residents,
are bound to educate these invaders of the community, whether they come
from without or whether they come by "birthright membership," in the
spirit of benevolence. The giving of money to public uses is one of the
cherished social forces of our time. The country community i