Excerpt from Serving the Neighborhood The work Of the church in the small town and in the country has been given greater emphasis, because in small places there are fewer organizations to lead. In smaller communities, the Church as an institution must not only initiate and inspire. It must organize and pro mote many neighborhood activities which are already established in more highly organized city communities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.