The country church should be made a true social center, alive to every need of the community, standing for a broad individual outlook and development, taking the lead in work and in recreation, caring more for conduct than for dogma, more for ethical, spiritual, practical betterment than for merely formal piety.
Roosevelt envisions the country church as a vibrant community center focused on ethical and practical development.
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