THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK
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THE BALSAMS
DIXVILLE NOTCH, N. H.
Open June to October
The new GOLF COURSE fulfilled every expectation
in 1915. Each season the playing conditions will be
improved.
The Club House, really magnificent and harmoniz
ing perfectly with its surroundings, occupies a site that
could not have been better chosen nor more excellently
arranged.
The Hotel Plant, complete in every detail, is situa
ated among forest clad mountains, upon an extensive
tract including farms, dairy, fish-hatchery, hydro-electric
plant, garage and machine shop. Pure spring water
is supplied in abundance. Indoors there are rest and
homelike comforts; out of doors every opportunity to
enjoy tennis, boating, bathing and wilderness life.
The Balsams Winter Inn, having steam heat,
electric lights and private baths is open from October
to June.
For booklet and information address
CHARLES H. GOULD, Manager,
Dixville Notch, N. H.
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AN APPEAL TO THE CLERGY
American Highway Association Calls for
the Co-operation of the Church
To Knit the Country Tog-ether With
Sonde of IBoth Good Road and
Good Fellowship
AS Mr. James Bryce
says in "The American
Commonwealth, ' ' ' ' the
school is becoming the
nucleus of local self-gov
ernment in the South
now, as the church was
in New England two
centuries ago, ' ' and
both' ought to be actively identified with
the good roads movement, without success
of which neither can attain that degree of
prosperity essential to the welfare of the
whole community. The direct and imme
diate effect of improved highways upon
the educational institutions in the country
districts has been discussed in these
chronicles. The building of modern
school houses, the extension of the
courses of study, the employment of com
munity wagons for the transportation of
pupils from wide districts to and from
the school centers to their respective
homes, the advantage of converting the
school buildings beween terms or on days
when "school is out" into community
forums for the discussion of public ques
tins of large moment or for such variety
of public entertainment as the people
might desire, are all subjects that have
have been , treated by , many wise and
thoughtful leaders. In the consideration
of the good roads problem strange to say,
however, one of the most influential
bodies of workers has been passed over
with little attention. The country doc
tors, whose labors are abundant and poor
ly rewarded, have been invited to take
an active part in the good road move
ment for their own benefit and the bene
of the patients who depend upon their
ministrations for relief in their times of
distress, and equally with these Samari
tans are the country preachers whose
mission it is to administer to the soul
while the physicians are doing their best
for the body.
In 1914 there were 178,313 ministers,
including the clergy of all the churches
or denominations or sects in the United
States who were ministering to 225,486
churches representing a membership of
28,805,559. The larger number of. these
ministers were engaged in the work of
country parishes or congregations. They
are all deeply concerned not only for the
spiritual welfare of their flocks but for
their material comfort as well. In the
pursuit of their abundant labors they
have found how difficult, how1 at times
almost impossible, it is for them to do
their work because of the impassable con
dition of the roads over which they must
journey on their missions of mercy. The
most of them are ill paid, many of them
actually live from hand to mouth ; the
average salary of the country minister
probably does not amount to over $400
the year, and how they , live only the Lord
knows. Take the Episcopal Church, for
example, which is said to contain "the
richest church membership in the United
States,' ' and there are 4,420 men em
ployed in its active service. The average
salary of its ministers is $1,300 the year,
all of which, however, is not paid in cash.
More than 2,500 of its clergy receive less
than $1,500, and only 237, including bish
ops, receive $4,000. Over 700 are paid
less than $1,000. The Southern Church
man says "they are expected to have a
good education, to dress well, to live and
move among people where rents are high,
keep open house, always appear cheerful
and preserve their physical vigor." In
the main they do all this, and as one of
the Washington rectors said recently,
"the preachers are the true economists
of the age and do more for less money
than any other workers in the land. ' '
The American Highway Association,
unfortunately, cannot "raise their
wages, ' ' so to say, but it can tell them,
not only the Episcopal brethren but all
who work in the same field, how, by the
exercise of their admittedly great influ
ence they can help particularly to im
prove the condition of the preachers em
ployed in the rural districts.
Preaching one or two sermons on Sun
day, however important, is not by any
means all that the country parson is
expected and required to do his partoral
work is as important as his preaching
service. His parish generally covers a
great stretch of country and his congre
gation is widely scattered. He must keep
in close touch with them if he is to exer
cise the duties of the ministry with
which he has been charged. In the older
and really better time in New England
and throughout the country, the country
parson was the guide, counselor and
friend of all his people. Being the most
learned man in the community, he was
consulted by his parishioners on all ques
tions of public and domestic concern and
wielded a tremendous influence in society
and upon the body-politic. He was the
oracle of his parish, kept fully advised
upon public questions and their relation
to the public morals, and where he led
the people followed. In spite of the gen
eral dissemination of knowledge and the
disposition of the crowd to do as it
pleases, he still is, or ought to be, the
most influential man in his neighborhood
and he would be if he would only in
his secular moments manifest an active
interest in the practical affairs of his
parish.
One of the most practical affairs with
which the people have to deal is the build
ing of good roads, roads which would tie
the country and the town together, which
would make neighbors of those who dwell
miles apart, which would afford the means
of easy communication between the coun
try doctor and his patients and between
the country parson and the members of
his church. The country parson finds it
possible only at the expense of great ner
vous energy and physical exhaustion at
certains times of the year to keep in touch
with the members of his flock. He knows
by hard experience the difficulty of riding
or walking over muddy roads and through
oceans of slush to those longing for his
comforting presence in time of sickness