Table I.--Population, average number of Persons and Churches, and average number of Persons to a Church, by Townships 111 Table II.--Churches classified according to the number of their members 112 Table III.--Amount of Ministerial Service by Townships, Villages, and Churches 114 Table IV.--Number of Churches in Villages and in the Open Country 115 Table V.--Resident Ministers in Strictly Rural Townships in the Open Country and in Villages 118 Table VI.--Terms of Service of Methodist Episcopal Country Ministers, 1917 119 Table VII.--Average number of Persons to a Church in 1170 Rural Townships 121 Table VIII.--Average number of Persons to a Church in Rural Townships, Suburban Townships, and Cities 122 Table IX.--Salaries of Methodist Episcopal Country Ministers, 1917 123 Table X.--Salaries of Country Ministers, United Brethren in Christ, 1917 123 III. TABULAR SUMMARIES BY COUNTIES 124 _PART III_ THE COUNTY MAPS EXPLANATORY NOTE 145 COUNTRY CHURCH MAPS OF THE EIGHTY-EIGHT COUNTIES OF OHIO 147 APPENDIX ACTION OF THE COMMITTEE ON INTERCHURCH COOPERATION OF THE OHIO RURAL LIFE ASSOCIATION 235 LIST OF MAPS The Country Churches of Ohio _Frontispiece_ PAGE Map A. Where Conditions Demand Missionary Aid 26 Map 1. High Death Rates from Tuberculosis 27 Map 2. High Rates of Illegitimacy 28 Map 3. Where Illiteracy Abounds 29 Map 4. Distribution of Foreign Born Whites 30 Map 5. Excessive Over-Churching 31 Map 6. Churches many but Ministers Few 32 Map 7. Number of Persons to a Resident Minister 33 Map 8. Value of Farm Property in the Year 1910 34 Map 9. Increase in Value of Farm Property 35 Map 10. Rich Land and Poor Land 36 Map 11. Showing that in 317 or 27 per cent of the Strictly Rural Townships no Church has a Resident Minister 49 Map 12. Farms Operated by Tenants 84 Map 13. Farms Operated by Tenants 85