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SOME THINGS TO CONSIDER BEFORE. SPENDING THIS YEAR'S CROP MONEY-Fage 13 CTnQ--0- (1 i v 'Y If inr? ni J tH II 0 1 J cp p11 1 7;J A , c-Ji- d-J C A Farm And Home Weh;. for .'. The Carol in as, Virginia. Geoia. and Florida. FOUNDED 1886.AT RAlJ1GH.RC. Vol. XXXI. No.; 48. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1916. $1 a Year; 5c. a Copy The Country Church and Sunday School: A Thanksgiving Thought THIS issue of The Progressive Farmer appears on the eve of the annual Thanksgiving season, a Thanksgiving that comes at a time when the Southern farmer is enjoying the greatest prosperity known in this generation. It is a fitting time therefore to recalPthe Lord's own parable of "The at the schoolhouse in a union Sunday school that would be the pride of the community and a tower of strength to all high purposes. The country church should also be strengthened by advancing the pastor's salary in accord with the advance in the cost of living and by painting Prosperous Farmer" the para ble of the man who rejoiced x)ver his fruitful fields and bursting barns but forgot the higher things pf existence. ' We hope we may be pardoned therefore for urging upon our I readers a very sincere, observance ! of the 'Thanksgiving Day" pro ! claimed by authorities of state j and nation for next Thursday, j It will be a good thing if through out the rural South our farmers and their families come together in church and schoolhouse, and make acknowledgement in prayer and song to the Giver of All Good Gifts. , It is also a good time to inquire whether the daily life, the com mon round, of the family is shot through with this gleam of di viner things. Does each family observe the old-fashioned habit of "returning thanks'' not' only one day in the year, but at each meal where the sustenance for the body reminds us of Him Whose sunshine and showers have made such sustenance pos sible; and that other ancient cus tom which the poet Burns por trays so beautifully in 'The Cot- ter's Saturday Night": .'; " . ... "The cheerfu' supper done, wi' serious face, They .round the ingle, form a circle wide; The sire turns o'erwi' patriarchal grace, The big ha'-Bible, ance his father's pride. . . . The priest-like father reads the sacred page. ' ' The . growth of absentee landlordism, which has laid its blighting hand 6nso many a noble influence in rural life, has weakened the religious life of the country, too; and we believe, therefore, that -there is more than f . - " - . - - . - , .'-V 1 : ' -ft u ' 4 f Mi C-'" ''A ' S L - 'THE FROST IS ON THE PUNKIN'. AN' THE FODDER'S IN THE SHOCK' usual need for turninVour thnnorhts at this Thanksgiving season to those in iueitces anJ viduices wnich may streogththpintual forces of our sectiouoiSashioned customs of 'grace ot dmner" and a -chapter-reading at night in each family should ber m .vuicmcu Vy eiioris io DUiia up cnurcn and-Sunrf! nood in which, there are not enough people' 01 any one'dennminati Sunday school, the people miht yet gather or enlarging the church building now while times are good. As for the injurious effect of absentee landlordism on the religious 4 life of the South, this fact does indeed deserve increased attention. The tenant neglects the church and the church neglects the tenant. Moving from place to place, tl landless man forms no strong attachment to anyytj DONT FAIL TQ READ- "How Much Grazing Will an Acre Fur nish?" . . . . . vv - . 3 Municipal Abattoirs or Slaughter Houses . 3 Hints for Hog-killing Time . . . . . . -5 Our Oldest and Xourigest Reader .vt X 7 Plant Diseases: 'Interesting Facts About' Their Control V . . Organize a Debating Society . fy "j . 12' Uncle John Helps to Organize a Farm Loan ; ' Association . . ...... ,12 Cutting and Fitting a Garment ". . .jik.; 14. Meeting of North Carolina Farmers' IFnlon 16 one religious .group, aad tpo ow ; local church organization and its Sunday school make no effort whoever tp ecure ; the attendance of thejw-poiAeenaht ?" and his family. 'r The. winsugg1iotSp ; to be, and to evrjVessive Farmer readerVho is active irf church or Sunday school worlc we would mal3tthiSas our ' final and inosf important appeal: Don't forget to secure the attendance of every tenant in your neighborhood, and where you cannot interest the ntan or his wife, get the children to attend. 0- ''I "" f
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