anized and scientific agriculture. Gradually the
influence of science and the leadership of the departments and colleges
of agriculture are being extended in the country. Little by little,
whether through landlord or tenant, farming is becoming a profession
requiring brains, science and trained intelligence. The country church
should promote this process because only through its maturity can the
country church in the average community find its own establishment. The
reconstruction of the churches now going on corresponds to the
exploitation of the land. The duty of the church in the process of
exploitation is to build the community and to make itself the center of
the growing scientific industry on which the country community in the
future will be founded.

The religion of the exploiter moves in the giving of money. Consecration
of his wealth is consecration of his world and of himself. The church
that would save him must teach him to give. His sins are those of greed,
his virtues are those of benevolence. His own type, not the least worthy
among men, should be honored in his religion. No man's conversion ever
makes him depart from his type, but be true to his type. Therefore the
religion for the exploiter of land is a religion of giving, to the poor
at his door, to the ignorant in this land, and to the needy of all
lands.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 7: The Conservation of Natural Resources in the United States,
by Van Hise.]

[Footnote 8: J. B. Ross--"Agrarian Changes in the Middle West."]

[Footnote 9: Secretary of Agriculture, James Wilson at the United States
Land and Irrigation Exposition, Chicago, Nov. 19, 1910.]

[Footnote 10: The Rural Life Problem in the United States, by Sir Horace
Plunkett.]

[Footnote 11: Dean Chas. F. Curtiss, State College of Iowa.]

IV

THE HUSBANDMAN

The scientific farmer is dependent upon the world economy. He is the
local representative of agriculture, whose organization is national and
even international. He raises cotton in Georgia, but he "makes milk" in
Orange County, New York, because the market and the soil and the climate
and other conditions require of him this crop.

He is dependent upon the college of agriculture for the methods by which
he can survive as a farmer. Tradition, which dominated the agriculture
of a former period, is a disappearing factor in husbandry of the soil.
The changes in market conditions are such as to impoverish the farmer
who learns