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Strength Restscttleadytore:fallforIn Rural HomefulyDrd-.vocforof‘The strength of the nation today rests in the rural home,” Airs. James ID. Wyker, ML Vernon. Ohio, president of the U n i t e d t lt;Church Women of the National!1 Council of Churches, said in an ad-j' dress recently at the-Baptist Rural! Life Convocation held at the Ana.-S; ericah Baptist Assembly. Green Lake, Wisconsin.[ toandlostThe wife of an outstanding ruralpastor, Mrs. Wyker listed three llim reasons for the greater degree of ^5 stability in the rural home:(!) The rural home is more than a home — it is an industry. The man and his wife do a job together there. Each is dependent upon the other and neither has time to think of reasons for getting a divorce.(2) Rural homes produce twice as many children as city homes do. In the rural home, children are an c asset, not a liability, irlv (3) The rural home is used—by the young people and by everyone else in the family. Mrs. Wyker commented, *Td rather clean up my- home after young people had used it than clean up moral nlth In a community'.”) to une pier ove ex-the S53. s.:ths,ioreiep-ture25.Kvewasandam,use''The tractors have come to stay. In the face of this mechanized society, the rural church cannot capitulate.” she went on- 'As free churches in a rural setting, we are in a position to lead out in the . matter of lay leadership. We canF*3ul f * , . L* ______* ♦ ‘Ur-.. - ‘demonstrate the power and the use -■of the laity. America is organizedanajgj-Jto death, me wise pastor in the1 rural setting is the one who shep-ucnherds organizations as well as individual souls.”ADoendectomv Attack
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Waukesha Daily Freeman
Waukesha, Wisconsin, US
Mon, Jul 12, 1954
Page 10
Full Page
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