tants or less. In addressing ourselves to the rural
church problem, therefore, we are almost exclusively concerned with the
smaller villages and the open country.

TABLE IV

NUMBER OF CHURCHES IN VILLAGES AND IN THE OPEN COUNTRY

Key:
1 _Rural townships_
2 _Per cent_
3 _Other rural sections_
4 _Per cent_
5 _All rural sections_
6 _Per cent_

1 2 3 4 5 6
No. churches in villages containing
from 51 to 2,500 persons 3,253 54 198 34 3,451 52
No. churches in open country 2,807 46 384 66 3,191 48
No. churches in villages or towns
having from 501 to 2,500
inhabitants 1,207 20 76 13 1,283 19
No. churches in villages having
from 51 to 500 inhabitants 2,046 34 122 21 2,168 33
No. churches in open country and
in villages having less than
501 inhabitants 4,853 80 506 87 5,359 81

We have assumed 50 persons as the line which separates a small village
from the open country, just as the United States Census has assumed 2,500
persons as the lower limit of the town. In rural Ohio there are 1,477
villages whose inhabitants number 51 to 2,500 persons. (See Table V.) Of
these, 673, or 46 per cent, have from 51 to 200 inhabitants; 487, or 33
per cent, have from 201 to 500 inhabitants; while 317, or 21 per cent,
have more than 500 persons.

Of the smallest villages, or those of 51 to 200 persons, 234, or 35 per
cent, have one or more ministers living near the church he serves and 270
ministers in all; while 440, or 65 per cent, have no resident ministers
whatever.

In the 487 country villages whose inhabitants number from 201 to 500
persons, 360, or 74 per cent, have one or more ministers and 527 ministers
in all, while there are 127, or 26 per cent, without resident ministers.
Of the 317 villages whose inhabitants number more than 500 persons, 308,
or 97 per cent, have one or more resident pastors and altogether 896
ministers--(which is 53 per cent of the whole number of ministers living
in villages), while only 9, or 3 per cent, are without any ministers at
all.

Of the 1,477 country villages of all sizes, 901, or 61 per cent, have one
or more resident ministers and in all 1,693 ministers, while 576, or 39
per cent, of the villages have no minister living in them.

These 1,477 villages have