The country church in industrial zones; the effects of industrialism upon the church life of adjacent rural areas as illustrated by two typical counties . In several communities, large, well managed and pros-perous farms are owned by colored men. Of the rest of the col-ored male population, the majority are farm hands. Some are en-gaged upon public works, especially on the roads and at the ProvingGround. Many colored women go out to domestic service. In thelast fifteen years, there has been a growing tendency for colored 77 THE COUNTRY CHUECH IN INDUSTRIAL ZONES pupils to attend high school, a
The country church in industrial zones; the effects of industrialism upon the church life of adjacent rural areas as illustrated by two typical counties . In several communities, large, well managed and pros-perous farms are owned by colored men. Of the rest of the col-ored male population, the majority are farm hands. Some are en-gaged upon public works, especially on the roads and at the ProvingGround. Many colored women go out to domestic service. In thelast fifteen years, there has been a growing tendency for colored 77 THE COUNTRY CHUECH IN INDUSTRIAL ZONES pupils to attend high school, and a number have attained are in Harford County twenty-one organized coloredchurches, and two colored missions, serving a total of 4,604 of the twenty-one organizations owns a building. Twentyof these church edifices are of wood, and one is of concrete. Thecondition of six is reported to be fair, that of eleven good, and thatof four very good. The total seating capacity is 5,600, more thanthe colored population. The total valuation for the twenty churchesfor which information is available * is $61,400, and the average. ^^ rOR THE FOREIGN-BORN The architecture of the Greek Orthodox Church atCentralia strikes an exotic note amid its plain sur-roundings. valuation is $3,070. Six churches own parsonages, which have acombined valuation of $10,400. All but one are reported as ingood condition. Thirteen of the church buildings are of the tradi-tional one-room type; five have two rooms each, and three havethree rooms. In handling their funds, fifteen churches use a comprehensivebudget, -and four other churches use the budget system for local * One church had no available records. 78 OTHER FORMS OF RELIGIOUS WORK expenses. Nine churches employ weekly envelopes. Twelve collectmonthly, and sixteen collect annually. Half the churches make anannual every-member canvass. The total amount raised during the year preceding the surveywas $13, Of this, 44 per c
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