The Regeneration of Rural New England
A writer in the Outlook, on “The Regeneration of Rural New England,” says that the intimation of the governor of New Hampshire some time ago that the Christian religion is dying out in New Hampshire, “is lamentably true in fact,” and “applies with more or less pertinence to nearly all the farming districts of New England. Maine, for instance, has two hundred and eighty-two pastorless churches. Not a few of those once-sacred edifices now serve as cheese factories, dance halls, and road houses. Other States show somewhat analogous conditions. Through large sections of the agricultural regions,—regions renowned for their piety and godliness,—the common attitude toward religion is one of stolid indifference. The people are lapsing toward heathenism.”