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Title: The Evolution of the Country Community
A Study in Religious Sociology

Author: Warren H. Wilson

Release Date: November 29, 2009 [EBook #30563]

Language: English

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THE EVOLUTION OF THE COUNTRY COMMUNITY

THE EVOLUTION OF

THE COUNTRY

COMMUNITY

A STUDY IN RELIGIOUS SOCIOLOGY

BY

WARREN H. WILSON

THE PILGRIM PRESS
BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO

_Copyright, 1912_,
BY LUTHER H. CARY

THE PILGRIM PRESS
BOSTON

TO

MISS ANNA B. TAFT

WHO FOUND THE WAY OF

RURAL LEADERSHIP

IN SERVICE ON THE NEGLECTED BORDERS OF

NEW ENGLAND TOWNS

PREFACE

The significance of the most significant things is rarely seized at the
moment of their appearance. Years or generations afterwards hindsight
discovers what foresight could not see.

It is possible, I fear it is even probable, that earnest and intelligent
leaders of organized religious activity, like thousands of the rank and
file in parish work, will not immediately see the bearings and realize
the full importance of the ideas and the purposes that are clearly set
forth in this new and original book by my friend and sometime student,
Dr. Warren H. Wilson. That fact will in no wise prevent or even delay
the work which these ideas and purposes are mapping out and pushing to
realization.

The Protestant churches have completed one full and rounded period of
their existence. The age of theology in which they played a conspicuous
part has passed away, never to return. The world has enter