es, such as befit those who are honored with a great and
difficult task. It offers also the pains, the burdens and
responsibilities of motherhood. It offers also the obligation and
perpetuating in succeeding generations the principles of the
productive life made manifest in themselves. It does not offer the
insult of a life of pride and vanity. It offers the joys of
achievement, of self-expression, not alone in dead marble and canvas,
but also in the plastic lives of children to be shaped and moulded
into those ideal forms of mind and heart which their dreams have
pictured. In these ways it offers to them also the joys of
participating in the building of the Kingdom of God."[45]

TEST QUESTIONS ON CHAPTER VIII.

1.--Why are college students discovering a new interest in studying the
rural problem?

2.--What proportion of your college enrollment came from country
communities, and what percentage of your alumni have invested their lives
in the country? Compare this with other colleges mentioned in this
chapter.

3.--Show how the vital interests of the city are deeply involved in the
problem of rural leadership.

4.--When adequate support is secured, what special opportunities for
service do you see in the work of a country teacher?

5.--What elements in the call for trained ministers for country churches
appeal to you as most urgent?

6.--Show how the modern minister, equal to his task, has as big an
opportunity to-day as ever in the past.

7.--What elements of heroism in the modern ministry make equally high
demands on the earnest college man, whether he stays in America or goes to
the foreign field?

8.--Why are college graduates avoiding the medical profession to-day more
than formerly?

9.--What do you think of the special opportunity and need of trained
country physicians?

10.--How do you estimate the chance a trained country lawyer has to-day
for Christian influence and service?

11.--Among the various professions connected with modern agriculture,
which offers the best opportunity for the investment of a life in
worth-while service?

12.--What do you think of the County Work secretaryship as a chance for
real rural leadership and community building?

13.--Compare the proportion of women teachers in the United States and in
the rest of the world. What does this indicate?

14.--Discuss the opportunities in the country for trained nurses and
phy