ABSTRACT
The community church was one of the principal schools of democracy. The community church has been a social organization, often supplying almost the only organized opportunity in the community for people to meet and to visit with each other. A small church of fifty or a hundred active members may constitute a compact body of neighbors and associates who sustain each other's purposes and provide intimate fellowship which larger organizations miss. The church would be an association of people for inquiring into a way of life, for making that way clear to young and old, and for inspiring and strengthening each other in that way. The spirit of America seems to be bigger than this attitude of exclusiveness and dominance, and even these undemocratic churches are coming to give up the attitude of exclusiveness and unique authority, and are participating more and more in the general community life.
