Missions and the church . Anklesvar (Pirst) Bung-alow, Sisters Bungralow, Anklesvar, India. CALL TO THE COUNTRY 125 cial field. The hills and the rocks and the valleysand the streams all speak to the country lad of God,who is Maker of heaven and earth. How many inafter years have borne testimony to the fact thatthey never seem nearer to God than when out some-where in the wild mountain places where the rocksand the hills hold eternal vigil midst unsurpass-able grandeur! Country boys and girls go wrong,too, unless they be amply fortified by proper teach-ing. Nature will not save anyone,
Missions and the church . Anklesvar (Pirst) Bung-alow, Sisters Bungralow, Anklesvar, India. CALL TO THE COUNTRY 125 cial field. The hills and the rocks and the valleysand the streams all speak to the country lad of God,who is Maker of heaven and earth. How many inafter years have borne testimony to the fact thatthey never seem nearer to God than when out some-where in the wild mountain places where the rocksand the hills hold eternal vigil midst unsurpass-able grandeur! Country boys and girls go wrong,too, unless they be amply fortified by proper teach-ing. Nature will not save anyone, but it strength-ens one who is taught. Crime in the country is rel-atively small. In Philadelphia, for example, thereare seven and a half times more crime than in thecountry districts surrounding. In Pittsburgh thereare nine times more crime than in the rural districtsof the State. In Iowa, for the past four years, clos-ing June 30, 1912, there were committed to the peni-tentiary 1,425 persons, of whom but forty-six werefrom the country. In the same time 74
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