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 but twelve have resident pastors and in these twelve communities thirty-nine pastors reside. In another of sixteen communities but eight have resident
pastors. Yet in each county there are enough ministers to supply each community with a resident pastor, if readjustment were to be made.
In the northeastern part of the State on a single Methodist district are to be found
two instances of Methodist and Presbyterian pastors
living in the same village and going on alternate Sundays to another village, in one instance larger than that wherein the ministers live.
The facts as to the growth and decline of churches with resident or non-resident ministers
elsewhere present (see Church Growth and Decline in Ohio) are a sufficient indication of the effects

of maladjustment of pastoral residences to rural community needs. Since
the modern demand of rural life upon the church is for community leadership as well as for holding Sunday worship, it is clear that no adequate
program of church leadership in rural

life can be worked out until this vital need of readjustment of pastoral
residences to community
service is met.
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