---
title: 'The Country Church'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Samuel Leslie Morris'
date: 1916-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '20th century'
topics:
- 'Ecclesiology (General)'
- 'Domestic Missions'
- 'Economics, Employment, and Work'
scriptures:
- 'Matthew 9'
- 'John 10'
- 'Acts 20'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/20th-century/morris-1916-the-country-church
---

# The Country Church

Report on the country church's decline—rural depopulation, tenant farming, absentee pastors—and a call for sacrificial evangelistic pastors and organized rural ministry.

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