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Title: Six Thousand Country Churches

Author: Charles Otis Gill

Release Date: August 30, 2010 [EBook #33587]

Language: English

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SIX THOUSAND COUNTRY CHURCHES

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
NEW YORK . BOSTON . CHICAGO . DALLAS
ATLANTA . SAN FRANCISCO

MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED
LONDON . BOMBAY . CALCUTTA
MELBOURNE

THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD.
TORONTO

[Illustration: THE COUNTRY CHURCHES OF OHIO]

SIX THOUSAND COUNTRY CHURCHES

BY
CHARLES OTIS GILL
AND
GIFFORD PINCHOT

AUTHORS OF "THE COUNTRY CHURCH"

PUBLISHED UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE FEDERAL COUNCIL
OF THE CHURCHES OF CHRIST IN AMERICA

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1919
_All rights reserved_

COPYRIGHT, 1919
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

Set up and electrotyped. Published November, 1919

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PAGE

_PART I_ CONDITIONS AND REMEDIES

INTRODUCTION xiii

CHAPTER

I. HOW THE FACTS WERE GATHERED 3

II. THE RURAL CHURCH MAPS OF OHIO 5

III. SUMMARY OF RESULTS 8

Oversupply of Churches--The churches small and weak--
Attendance--An absentee ministry--Divided effort of the
ministry--Short term of minister's service--Defective
overhead organization--Ministers' salaries--Educational
equipment of the minister.

IV. WHERE CHURCH EFFICIENCY IS LOWEST 12

V. THE CHURCH IN THE EIGHTEEN COUNTIES 19