Warren H. (Warren Hugh) Wilson

Warren H. (Warren Hugh) Wilson
Warren Hugh Wilson was a prominent American writer, sociologist, and rural pastor in the early 20th century. He is best known for his work in rural sociology and the development of rural churches. His influential book "The Church of the Open Country" (1911) emphasized the importance of religious institutions in sustaining rural communities. Wilson's writings and lectures played a significant role in shaping rural reform movements in the United States, particularly in improving the social and spiritual life of farming communities.

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INTRODUCTION. Fourteen years ago the author came to Quaker Hill as a resident, and has spent at least a part of each of the intervening years in interested study of the locality. For ten of those years the fascination of the social life peculiar to the place was upon him. Yet all the time, and increasingly of late, the disillusionment which affects every resident in communities of this sort was... more...

INTRODUCTION The church and the school are the eyes of the country community. They serve during the early development of the community as means of intelligence and help to develop the social consciousness, as well as to connect the life within the community with the world outside. They express intelligence and feeling. But when the community has come to middle life, even though it be normally... more...