=The Ultimate End of All Effort.= Nothing material or physical is final. We are not to provide social rooms, good healthful surroundings, playgrounds, and other social good things just for themselves, but because these things are essential to the best and highest moral development of individuals. In the last analysis the work of the church is the salvation of men and women. Its work, as has been said, is to put a sky over men’s heads. You cannot save individuals by giving them good physical surroundings, healthful conditions, and by supplying all their physical needs. These are merely the steps to the temple of the spirit. The weakness of most of our schemes for social betterment is found in the fact that many of them would put a man in a fine room, with good light, splendid furnishings, serve a sumptuous meal to him and then start a force-pump and pump all the air out of the room. A man may die in the midst of the finest things with which we can surround him. People must grow, and growth demands atmosphere, and if we give everything else and fail to create the right kind of atmosphere we are failing. “Seek ye first his [God’s] kingdom, and his righteousness; and all the other things shall be added unto you.” By this Jesus did not mean that we were to put less emphasis on right conditions, but that if we get conditions right, then we can work for the things that really are of greatest interest. Above all, he was warning of the danger that faces us to-day, of becoming so much interested in a man’s social welfare that we lose sight of the emphasis which the great Teacher would put upon the qualities which make up humanity. We must recognize man as a spiritual being, and everything that goes to make him better physically ought to make him better spiritually. The best work of the church, and the work which God alone can do for the community, is to carry humanity beyond physical betterment into the realm of spiritual idealism. This is our task. This is the church’s goal. When this is realized in all society then the kingdom of God will be realized on earth; and the things that men create will be set in right relationship to the men themselves; that is, they will become the adjuncts of every man’s life and will minister to all human happiness. BIBLIOGRAPHY A BRIEF READING LIST _The Rural Problem_ Bailey, L. H. _The Country Life Movement in the United States._ 1911. Macmillan Company, New York. 75 cents. Brunner, Edmund de S. _Cooperation in Coopersburg._ 1917. Missionary Education Movement, New York. 50 cents. Brunner, Edmund de S. _The New Country Church Building._ 1917. Missionary Education Movement, New York. 75 cents. Earp, Edwin L. _The Rural Church Movement._ 1914. Methodist Book Concern, New York. 75 cents. Mills, Harlow S. _The Making of a Country Parish._ 1914. Missionary Education Movement, New York. 50 cents.