New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 4, 1916, Page 10

NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1916. oz;i;ling Americans | - Of Europe’s Raw Material ity Mission Tells of Its Wor New Haven Pastor Re! in the The annual meeting of the City flission was held in the chapel of the rst Baptist church last night with large number of members lends of the organization resident E. M. Wightman Ind in opening the meeting, praised e officers of the society for their ork during the past year and made pecial mention of the many contribu- and present, presided jons made by F. G. Platt. Any person | ho is willing to contribute a sum arly may become a member and r. Wightman expressed the hope the @mbership would be increased in pe coming year, because of the ides.” ‘The meeting opened with pé singing of a hymn followed by a | e offered | #ding of the scripturc by Rev. fitle B. Cross. Prayer was Rev. H. W. Maier, pastor jitst Church of Christ. A short business sesston was held iring which reports were presented e the treasurer and the nominating Pprimiitee. Scer y €. H, Pad the minutes of the last annual @eting, which were accepted. Treas lér W L. Damon presented his Bt which foilow of the re- teceipts. b 11, 1915 fsh on hand darics Istrn salaries Printing, Tslepliores, ots .. 1916-—cash on hand Officers Elected. [Dr. T. Bawin Brown of the nomina- B committee presented the follow- cer's for the ensuing year and nominces were unanimously ted @ lonorary president, Bin; president, E. M. Wightman; Jéé president, A, N. Lewis; secretary, . Burnes: treasurer, W. L. Damon; fitor, A. W executive com- lttee, composed of officers, pastors ' co-operating churches and F. G. att, Rov. L. 8. Johnson and G. H. fson: trustees, W. L, Damon and E. man, who are already serving, A. W. Upson, for three years; nce committee. ¥. G. Platt, chair- fin, W. L. Damon, J. M. Burdick, . Mins, H. 8. Walter, L. H. Tay- fand £, H. Cooper. Demonstration Given. $23. B, Neu- F. In order to show the work of the sion, eight little tots, members of South Congregational church, a short demonstration. They re- fed passages from the scripture in lish and sang songs in their na- tongue. This part of the program s very interesting and the children owed the effects of conscientious ining and study. 38 wo-Minute Glimpses.” fPhe next number was the reading hort papers of Miss M. J, Brehov- assistant missionary, and the 8ses Rood, Kirk, Monteith and dmsley, students of the Xennedy of Missions, Hartford. Miss fehovsky told of the work of the ing school conducted by the Mis- . , There are twelye nationalities presented among the students, who p very zealous in their work, show t interest, and are anxious to n. Classes are conducted in sew- reading and crochet work. New ain offers an excellent training nd for the study of conditions flong people of foreign extraction d every week students from the rtford school visit this city to ob- n practical experien k, Monteith and Walmsley told of rsonal experiences of their visits to s city Miss Bartlett’s Report. nder the caption of “The Immil- ant at Close Range,” Miss Caroline Bartlett, city missionary presented report, which follows: n rendering this, my port of City Mission work in New fitain, one thought is uppermost in f mind; “‘Other men labored and ve entered into their labors;” for debt to my predecessor and her listants is ever before me as I seek ‘earry on the work so wonderfully janized and so efficiently conduct- in other years. We hear and read much about the fge foreign population of New Brit- . in lectures, newspapers and mag- nes, and it may be that we think our immigrant population too much the abstract, and forget that it is fmposed of human being very much ourselves, living in , with families whom they love and whom they willingly labor to earn p: them the scanty provision that is portion of so many of them. The migrant considered only as a ange specics—hardly human—from ountry very different from our own, not seem attractive to the casual Server. We need to get near to his fue litc and become through close fuaiatance a real neighbor and nd in order to look upon him with ything like enthusiastic = interest. mc immigra ro not attractive, must admit, and they do not al- ys improve upon acquaintance as of them are intemperate and 4l in their homes and are not wtifu! to look upon; but the same also be said of some Americans; we must always remember that it & the sinful, the repuisive that the n of Man came to seek and to save. he work of the City Mission is to ldua! intevest they may be made “war- | Barnes | . Misses Rood, | first annual homes as we | Out k at Annual Meeting and lates His Experiences Field. | her in bring a closer acquaintance between these strangers within our gates and the more fortunate members of so- ciety in New Britain that through churches and Sunday Schools and in- | to feel that they are ‘‘no more strans- !ors and foreigners, but fellow-citi- | zens,” not only of this earthly city, I but of the heavenly kingdom. | The word statistics carried with it an inevitable suggestion of weariness to the listener, to say nothing of that | experienced by the compller, so I will not burden you with a tabulated state- ment of the number of visits made and received and other figures of the past ear’'s work, though I hope you will read them in the printed report: but I do want you to feel that back of these figures is a vital personal con- tact with thesec same immigrants whom we like to feel are our neigh- bors and warm friends. | Brands Snatched From thc Burning. It would mean little to you if I should tell you that 365 visits have | been received the office since the first of April, when my service there really began. I would rather tell vou of the opportunities these visits have afforded to explain the Bible truths to those to whom they are ab- solutely new and to offer praver with those who are just learning how to pray. One fregent visitor at the of- fico is a young Italian woman for whom the former superintendent la- bored long and patiently and with many discouragements; now the fruit | begins to appear and the object of | such unceasing labor and prayer hag come out into a beautiful Christian life, and her happiest hours are spent at the Italian service on Sunday and in learning more perfectly the way of Jife in these quiet talks at the office. an hardly wait for Sunday to * she said one day; “I'm in such a hurry to go to church.” Such re- are not so frequent even in the best-regulated families, as to malke this one seem commonplace. Her husband has also been led to at- tend these services, and quite recent- lv our hearts were gladdened hy the appearance of her father, mother and threc sisters with her at church. Sometimes the office caller is a mo- ther with a heart overflowing with sorrow and anxiety because of the ill- ness of her only daughter; she comes for sympathy and friendship in her deep distress and it Is a privilege to assure her of both. A young girl, too earsy burdened with houeshold cares, comes just to talk it over, for it isn't easy at the age of sixteen to care for the needs of a father, older sister and three brothers; and affectionate interest heips to make it a little less hard. A young man from a mission church in New York comes to the to work, lives in a rooming eats in various restaurants, and missing the companions, the friend- ly missionaries and the athletic and social attractions of the church he has just left, feels very lonely. His for- | mer Sunday School teacher com- | mends him to our care, and throush | | an evening call at the City Mission | office he is introduced to Sunday | School workers here and started to- ward new friendships and Christian | fellowship. Other callers came to the | office for consultation in regard to various phases of the work, for help in domestic service and on other er- | rands, but the heart of the office work | lies in the direction of calls such as 1 have outlined. 1298 Visits in" Past Year.. To tell you that the superintendent and her assistant have made 1298 visits | during the past year would be to. state a cold and uninteresting fact. It you would realize how full of in- | terest these ¥visits have beéen you would need to go with us on our rounds, perhaps by devious routes in- | to rear yards bounded on one side by stables and on another by fac- | tories, to visit our Italian Sunday in | 1 ‘ clean; | colored paper bouquets which she sent .in appreciation glorified our office 'for days to come. A young American girl of 18 of 19, married to an Italian, was found in a furnished room in a rear tenc- ment. The rest of the house was very scantily furnished and far from but she had taken pride in making her tiny room ncat and at- tractive, and to it she welcomed the Ttalian children of the tenement - in which she lived. She is a Protestant brought up to attend church; now she married to a man differing from language and in belief, with the result that neither of them at- tends church. This is a place where we hope by frequent visits to turn the thoughts of their young life toward spiritual things. In a basement home two German girls of 11 and 14 are found keeping house for their father out of school hours, as they are without a mother's care. They have need of all the friendship and oversight we can give them through visitation, the sewing schood and the clubs at the Y. W. C. A is The sewing schools have already been reported on, but it is my pleas- ure to speak with appreciation of the loval and self-sacrificing devotion of the teachers in both schools and to say of them as St. Paul did of his helpers: “These are my fellow- workers unto the kingdom of God which have been a comfort unto me. You will see in the printed report that 17 children and adults have been zathered into church and Sun- day school during the year. This tells only part of the story, for where we have been able to induce a few here and there to attend, they, in turn, have brought many others, so that the total number “gathered in” is much larger. Among others, is an Jtalian family found by the assistant missionary more than a year ago, in great poverty and suffering. She was able to help them at a time when help was sorely needed, with the re- sult that they said to her, “We want to go to the church where vou go; we like a religion that makes vou so kind and good to us.”” Now, the three older children are regular at- tendants at Sunday school, and the father and mother earnest adherents of the Italian Mission. When a Sun- day school for Italian children, still too decidedly ‘in the rough” to feel at home in a regular church Sunday school, was started by Mr. Pesaturo | are scene of the recent rioting in connec- | tion with the strikes. The town has a population of 9,700, of which 462 are voters. The schools have 1,102 pu- pils, nearly all in the lower grades. There are nine in the high school, twenty in the eighth grade and 825 in grades 1 and 2. Mr. Bronson deplored the fact that there are no kindergart- ens, no night-schools and no churches in the town, but there are nineteen sa- loons. Mr. Bronson then spoke follows: Have you ever been a stranger In city? If you have, vou know some- thing of the way the foreigner feels in America; you know something of as the difficulty of getting acquainted and [ especially of gettin gin touch with the better influences. The cvil influence more aggressive. Have you ever Leen a stranger in a forcign city where the people about you speak a tonsue unintelligible to you? If you have, you realize better the situation of our new Americans; you appreciate some- thing of the barrier which confronts them on every side. As I heard one of them say recently, “We are like the children of Israel entering the Prom- ised Land and coming face to face with the walls of Jericho.” Such a wall is the strange language: such walls are the strange ways; such walls are the habits of us older Americans unused to adapting ourselves to these strangers within our gates. Our sat- isfaction with oursclves, our occupa- tlon in our own intere our abilit to get on without associating ver) much with these new Americans—all these present a barrier, a wall of sep- aration. This barrier of separation surrounds even our churches—at least most of these strangers feel there is such a wall about them. In fact, their experience with the church- es of other lands has often made them fell that there is nothing in our churches which will be of value or il.- terest to them. They do not know the spirit of our civilization of Christianity. They are through previous experience against some of the best things in our Amer- ican life. Tt would be an utter sur- prise to most of them to discover what we know of some of the finc cle- ments in our life. The materialis side, the self-seeking side of our ¢! ilization presents itself to them first, in most cases they are taken advan- tage of by the steamship companies | and by a horde of sclfish grafters up- and his daughter, we were privileged | to contribute some of the charter members, and since their removal to other fields of labor we have fallen heir to the whole responsibility of this work. It is a wonderful privi. lege to give to these Italian children | the | their first opportunity to hear beautiful Bible stories to which they so eagerly listen, and to teach them the hymns which they so love to sing. This work was started in October so | it is still in its infancy and we are not yet working very scientifically, but we hope, with an increase in numbers to become duly graded and admitted to the best soclety in Sun- day school circles. We need to think back through the intervening months of rain and sleet, snow and vapor, to the days when an outing into the country was really desirable, and if you will try to re- member what some July and August days can be in a crowded tenement, you will realize more fully what' it meant that 187 women and children were taken for outings last summer. Most of these were by way of the trolley lines but some never-to-be-for- gotten rides were in what one of the delighted participants called “water- mobiles.” Most of us here, probably, were past the golden age of childhood when we took our first automobile ride, and could scarcely have felt the thrill that these children of few pleasures experienced when for the first time they were seated inside one of these wonderful machines which had hitherto been to them only aun on-rushing monster to be avoided with all haste. It is quite a different matter to be riding in one and see lTess fortunate individuals hurrying out of our way. The few who had this great privilege were as appreciative as the Irish woman who once said to me after her first ride, “I never expected to ride in one of them things unless I went in the patrcl wagon.” Other Pleasures. It has been our privilege to dis- pense other pleasures, at Thanksgiv- ing and Christmas, through the kind- ness of interested friends, but there is not time to tell you of them in School scholars, some of whom have been introduced to you this evening. | Many of these people are Sicilians | and speak a dialect hard to under- | stand, but the children serve as wil- | ling interpreters. I was calling in one of these homes one evening when | the oldest boy came in from school. ! He immediately went to his mother and evidently following an established | custom, kissed her deferentially on | | either hand. Piloted by willing guides, | 1 climbed outside stairs to the top floor where Gennarino lives with his father and mother, Carlo, who is par- tially paralyzed, Giulina, the grand- mother and various uncles and cousins. It was Gennarino who said when the story of Daniel was being reviewed in Sunday School, “The King came to the den of lions in the morn- ing and called to Daniel and Daniel answered ‘I didn't get hurt’ " His people are Neapolitans to whose dla- lect I have become accustomed, and they smile beamingly as we converse, for with these appreciative foreigners a little comprehension goes a long way The adults in the family can read in their own language which is somewhat unusual, and are glad of the promise of an Italian Bible. At another time, a little Polish girl came to say that her brother wanted to sce me. I found her in great distress, as she was ill, her rooms (needed painting, pepering and plas- 1 tering as was painfully ap- parent, the iandlord had sent the paper and told her she could do it herself; *“And I can’t!” she said, piteously; would I speak to some one about it? I would and did, to the Board of Health, who investi- | gated the rooms, interviewed the re- creant landlord and the neccessary re- pairs were soon made. The woman’s gratitude was pathetic and the many- | { quaintance with our daily round | work. detail. We are grateful for all the interest and co-operation shown us by so large a number, and we hope that still others may seek an ac- of The City Mission field covers in areas practically the whole of New Britain and it seems to increase size with every effort made to cover it; of the vast number of foreigners needing our help, you need not be reminded; the force of workers giv- ing full time to the service of this society consists of Miss Brehovsky and myself; and “what are we among so many?” We seek your continued interest and ask you to unite yonur prayers with ours that He who mul- tiplied the loaves and fishes to meet the needs of the hungering multi- tude may so increase the number of City Mission friends that more labh- orers may be sent into this great har- vest. Our courage might often fail before & task so seemingly impossible to compass, were it not that He who said “go ye,” said also, “I am with vou;” and we can, with all our hearts echo the thought of the blind writer who said: “Never have I seen Thee so clearly as when T was break- ing bread to hungry; never have I loved Thee so dearly as when I sooth- ed a brother’s pain; I sought the friendless children and I discovered Bethlehem; I visited the humble homes and I found Nazareth.” Respectfully submitted, CAROLINE E. BARTLETT, Superintendent. Problems of New Americans. Rev. Oliver H. Bronson, associate pastor of the Center church, New Haven, delivered an address on “'Prob- lems of New Americans.” As a pref- ace to his address, the speaker told of conditions in Youngstown, Ohio, the in | i lands and mingled | are taking place | on the mountains and | portunities on thelr arrival here. Too often the conditions under which they work give them a very unfortunate opinion of the heartlessness and the cruelty of a materialistic and self-seeking people. The conditiors under which they live, the houses in which thev are compelled to find a substitute for a home, these things often give them a very unfortunate idea of American life and American ideals. Surmounting the Barricr. The chief problem of the new Am- erfcan is how to get through this bar- rier ana our ckief problem in connec- tion with him should be how to cause these walls of Jericho to fall. The | importance for us of helping to break down this barrier cannot be over es- timated. Tt has been important for some time but we have been very slow to realize it and many of us do not now realize what it means that it a city like New York, for instance, one quarter of the population are Jews from forcign lands, that there are more people speaking German prob- ably than in any other city of the world, more Italians than in any city save Naples. We are exceedingly slow to realize what it means that in a little New England city, proud of its ancestry and of its culture, a city like New Haven, there are between 45,000 and 50,000 Italians, that one third of those born in New Haven during the last year were born of Italian parents that one third of the children in the schools are Itallan, and that they have come to stay, for one sixth of the tax- payers in New Haven last year were Itallans. Not only are they here in such num- bers, and are here to stay, but they are cager to take advantage of all the opportunities offered them. In New York, for instance, although the Jews have only about onc fourth of the population, in many of the educational institutions of the city, ninety per cent. of the students are of the He- brew race, and in all the libraries, night schools, the proportion of the people of this race is way bevond their proportion of the population. The same is true, perhaps to a somewhat less degree but it is still true, of most | of those who come to use from other lands. When we contrast their eag- crness to take advantage of all the op- offered with the careless, indifferent, self-satisfied way of the older Americans, it is easy to see who are to be the leaders in the New Am- erica of the next generation. How im- portant, then, is the question W their ideals shall he and what their knowledge of the best things in our present civilization. Learning ¥From America. But not only is it important for the America of the coming years, it fis equally important for the world of the cays to come. Have you ever travelled in foreign with the working observed the changes that in the hamlets of the peasants throughout Kurope? It has been my privilege to do this and I have discovered that everywhere T have gone in Germany, in Austria away back among the Carpathian Mountains, in Russia, that villages were being made over after the pat- tern of what they have learned of America. Do you realize previous to Aug. 1913, one million letters went out from America to these places in JEurope? These million lette ten each night, are written by those who are working in our shops and in our homes, who arc meeting us on the street and who are describing in these letters what they see in you and me. And so these little villages in the valley people or | along the rivers and over the plains of Europe are being made over by the | pattern of what our new American neighbors are saying about us. They are telling how we treat our servants, they are telling how we treat the factory workers, they are telling how we welcome the nger from an- other shore: they are telling what we str wear, how we live, what we cat, and l writ- | what we do in business and in so- | cial life; they are telling how we treat our children; they are telling | how we spend our Sundays and how ‘ we spent our other leisure and the | world is being made over after the | pattern of what these letters say. Do | vou realize that every year 600,000 | of these people who have been writing | these letters, go back to these vil-| lages throughout BEuropr, and there | they in a more personal and di- | rect way the same things they have | heen trying to say in their | Wherever we went in Europe, | working people told us of their rela- tives in America. Again and again and again, the employes of the ho- tels and the cab drivers and the men on the railroad, wherever we met people of the working class, we were told that their brothers and sisters were in America and that they would be too except that they had to stay to take care of the older folk. Tt ‘is impossible for us to realize how great an influence we are exerting. The miracle of Pentacost is being ro- peated on a vastly larger scale thar it ever was performed before. Wheth- er we will or not, we are speaking by every act and word and gesture, we are speaking a universal language that is being heard through a thou- | sand megaphones in every part of the | world. One who ,helpg a foreigner solve his problem in exerting the greatest possible influence on the fu- ture of America and on the future of the world. How Can We Help. Now, how are we to help him do | this? Our schools are doing a vast deal but they must do more. The school house everywhere should be made a community center where all the people of the neighhorhood can | get together, not only for instruction but for amusement and for discussion of all vital problems connected with | the community. There should be in every school house an open forum and there should be in every school house a place of amusement and recreation for all the people of that neighborhood. The church also has a very important function. Most of us do not realize how really hungry for real religion these new Americans are. Many of them have little use for the church. Some of them have left the church and gone into such movements as socialism because they find socialism making a stronger ap- peal to ‘their religious nature than the churches do, because they find more of the spirit of Christ in the labor movement with its problems than they had found in the church. And yet, wherever the church has more fairly interpreted to them the spirit of the Christ, they have re- sponded to it. In my work on the East Side in New York, I was espe- cially impressed with the attitude of the Jewish people toward New Testa- ment teaching and toward Jesus. In the little synagogue on Fourth street directly opposite the church of which I was minister, I met one night a little group of Hebrews, the older ones all of the orthodox sort. I was greeted cordially by them all and was told that they were especially glad to ,see me because they had been talking together of the relation of the church to the synagogue and of Jesus to the Old Testament religion, and they wanted to ask me some questions. T found that most of the younger peo- ple had read our New Testament and were familiar with much in church history. Several of them were much better acquainted with the New Tes- tament and with the church history than the average church member in the churches with which I am famil- jar. After we had had a discussion lasting nearly an hour about these things, and about the relation of the church of which I was minister to the neighborhood and to the Jewish ele- ment in it. One of the young men said to me, “Of course our parents who have grown up in Russia and Eastern Austria, where they have met only persecution and unchristlikeness from the church, will not understand your position, but you may be equally sure that all of the younger Jews in this community will not only appre- ciate what you are trying to do in this neighborhood, but will up to their ability co-operate with you.” One of the kindergartens which we con- ducted in that church, was supported by the contributions of Jewish women. One of the best volunteer workers that we had in our boy's work was a young Hebrew, a graduate of Yale. When I was a student in Union Seminary, I had a Sunday school class of Italian boys in a dc vntown Sun- day school. After having been away from New York for ten years, I went back to take charge of another church in, New York, a self-support- ing downtown church with a splendid history behind it, and found that two | of the best teachers in our Sunday school were Italian girls who had heen brought up in the Sunday school of which I had been a member ten years before. I found that a con- siderable number of the best workers in that church were of foreign birth. And visiting the Sunday school to which I had formerly belonged, I found that most of the teachers were Italian young men and women who had heen brought up in that Sunday school and that that Sunday school was one of the best organized and best manned in the city of New York. In 1909, the Presbyterian Home Board took charge of an empty church on the corner of Second Avenue and | 14th street in the city of New York, letters. the i ing when both the mu in the heart of a vast foreign popula- tion. Recently I attended a Sunday evening service there. T learned that the occasion was a normal one, there was nothing unusual or sensational | but the church was full of people, probably a thousand of them, as it is | every Sunday night. One-third of them | were Hebrews, the rest were Ttal- ians, Poles, Greeks, in fact, most of the countries of eastern and southern Europe were represented in that con- gregation. They joined in' the sing- ing, they were responsive hcarers of the gospel sermon. The Jericho walls of separation had fallen down there and they were getting in touch with | some of the best Christian people and some of the best Christian ideals, | and they were responding to them | splendidly. Six years ago, the Church | { new Americans. Permanent Relief for Chronic Constipation Knowledge and Practice of Correct Daily Habit the Gieat Essential. Constipation is a condition affecting all classes of all people and can be | permanently relieved only by acquir- ing habits of regularity. The most natural time for climinative process is in the cular and ne; vous systems are relaxed by sleep and rest. When relief does not come reud- ily, it is an excellent plan to take a mild laxative at bedtime. Cathartics the morn- | and purgatives, that by the violence of | their quick action shock and disturb the system, should not he employed. An effective laxative remedy that is very dependable, and which does not gripe or otherwise disturb the organs involved, is found in a combination of simple laxative herbs known as Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin that can be bought at the drug store for fifty cents a bottle. Mrs. C. C. Allen, 215 Foam St., New Monterey, Calif,, wrote to Dr. Cald- well that she “found Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin just what was nceded for | constipation and distress of the stom- of the Ascension, one of the wealthy Fifth Avenue churches of the Epis- copal denomination, invited the peo- ple of New York without regard to race or faith, to come to its house of worship for a sermon, and a dis- cussion on vital problems, every Sun- day night. One half of the attend- ance on that service has usually been foreign. One third, sometimes more than one half, has been Jewish. The church made an effort to show an in- terest in our new Americans and thelr problems, and many hundred of those who were entirely ignordant therewith. I could go on to cite a number of il- lustrations of how the walls have fallen down and of how our older Americans are using our best insti- tutions for the solving of the new American’s problem. It is also our own problem. The Work New Haven. T would like to speak briefly of two in or three illustrations of the same sort in New Haven. In the spring of 1913 the Center church invited the of New Haven to its church house, Sunday nights (our main second ser- vice being in the afternoon), there in our church house in a Christian at- mosphere to discuss some of the vital problems of our city;—such problems as those of health, of housing, of con- ditions in factories, hours of labor, women and children in industry. The response was immediate and most en- couraging. The socialists gave up their own Sunday night meeting in order to come to our forum, and we have had representatives of every aspect of our city life. This meeting has been val- uable not only that it has given people of different training and different view points a chance to become acquainted and to exchange opinion; it has also ziven some who held views considered by some others to be dangerous an opportunity to let off steam. Some of them in doing 80 and in observing the way In which their views were = re- ceived, have considerably modified those views. Dr. Lyman Abbot tells how, several years ago on a visit of investigation in the south, an aged colored man said to him, “You ‘uns in the north know somethin’s that we 'uns don’t know, and we 'uns down here know somethin's you ’uns don’t know, and mixin' larns both.” The benefit of such a meeting as we have had in Center church house has been’ mutual. The last three summers beginning in May and lasting until October, the people of Center church carried their afternoon service out onto the porch and there, with an organ and a cor- net, sometimes with four or five or- chestral instruments, with a volunteer choir, and with their ministers, con- ducted an open alr service. We wer fortunate in our location in the very center pf our city green, which is the center/of the city, and past which every trolley car in the city goes, but our average attendance w in the neighborhood of 200. Only once, I think, did we have less than 100; ot other times four or five hundred were present. One ~ Sunday, when the weather was somewhat threatening, we announced that there would be no service, but, passing the green a few minuts before the regular hour. one of our ministers observed a considerable group who had already gathered, and so the service was held. T believe in special churches for the people foreigners, but I think that if we lim- | to ing' a it our ecclesiastical ministration such special service we arc way of largest opportunitir we could rake them feel that ware welcome, they would come gladly and in large numbers to our own churches and this would do, in my estimation, more than anything else save one thing, to undo the misinterpretation of the church and the Chritsianity that they have been subjected to and to give them a proper appreciation of the meaning of our religious life and of our highest ideals mis Personal Contact Counts, One thing which will go farther and which seems to me most important of all, is the personal contact with these We cannot afford fo our own sakes to ignore them or to al- low the barriers to separate us from them. They are here in large num bers; they are here to stay; they arc here with ambitions, with high hopes and desires; they o here because they believe America has much for them; they have come hear at great sacrifice, in many cases, and if we, older Americans are to cut them ofy from personal association from selves, we are depriving them and ourselves of what we both need.§ Five years ago, the superintendnt of our Ttalian Congregational Sunday school in New Haven, became acquainted with a group of bo: He found that they were all connected with the Ro- man Catholic church, and were not available for the Sunday school of | C. ALLEN ach after eating. household Get a bottle of Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin and keep it in the house to use when occasion arises. A trial bottle, free of charge, can be obtained by writing to Dr. W. B. Caldwell, 64 | Washington St., Monticello, Ill. It should be in every which he was supcrintendent. organized them into a Castle Knights of King Arthur. He went through with them once a week the Knights of King Arthur ritual with its £plendid religious and civic instrucs tion. He came to know them in their homes and in their work. They wera boys who were subjected to decidedly pernicious influences outside. He un= dertook to counteract these pernicious | influences. The boys appreciated what he was doing and while he was un- ' ble to save all of the group from the pernicious influences, many of them have responded to the better influ- | ences which he brought to them. As a result of his work with that grouf several other groups have appealed 1o, him for help and he has been able tq interest other men in the same effort. This is just one way in which the per- sonal influence which is so needed and so effective, can be exercised. A smalf settlement, two or three resident works rs in each neighborhood, is one of the ways in which this thing can be doné Men and women who are willing t0 take a family or two or three families and show a friendly and neighborly int terest in thcm, can accomplish vastly more than any one who has not tried it can realize in the way of making America better, and the world. As I look back over my life, I ras call two moments of tremendous thrill. One of them was when, as @& boy, I stood with my mother in the city of Hartford and saw the veterans of the Civil war bring the battle flag¥ they hdd used during the war to des posit in the state capitol. As~ theg marched past, some of them with crutches and canes, with many al empty sleeve, all thatl had heard from my father and mother of the sig: nificance of the sacrifice and the suf- fering of the days of the war seemed to be summed up and I realized tre. mendously what it meant to have & country and to be a patriotic citizen. In 1908, Congressman Bennett, whe was at that time the head of our Na~ tional Commission on Immigration, asked me to recommend some of th® voung people whom I knew in our church, who spoke Italian or German, for service in his commission. He wanted them to act as secret inspee= tors of immigration conditions. I gave him the names of several and then suggested to him that I would be willing if he thought I could do it with my knowledge of German, to be such an inspector myself, during my vacas tion. All of my recommendationg were accepted including that of mys self. This intimate experience on both the eastward and westward journeys was of great value to me. I was abl to live intimately with these peopld during the many days of the journeyy to learn more than I had learned beg fore of the impressions they had gots ten of America and of their problemd here. And on’the return journey, I | was able to learn a great deal of thelr ideals and hopes, and of the sacrificed they were making and were ready to make. As we steamed into New | York harbor and the ship's band was playing an Anierican National air, my, soul was deeply stirred as I realized tvhat it meant for all these people coming to our land, and what it ought to mean to us that they are here, and that if we are to be truly patriots, we ought to be willing tc make a sacri- fice something like the sacrifice thew | are making, that our fathers have made, in order that they may help us i and we may help them to a better Am- | erica and a better world. | - NOT SICK ENOUGH, PERHAPS ' Many people who need a tonic neglect it because they are not sick enough ta cause them any worse feeling than one of fatigue and discomfort. They do not realize that the decline i their health is so gradual that theyy themselves, do not realize how far fromw normal they are until the pale face, weak nerves, languidness and irritability ate tract the attention of friends. Even then a tonic is the right remedy. Dr. Willia..s’ Pink Pills build up thet blood and send renewed health and strength to every part of the body. The appetite is improved, the digestion 1§ toned up, there is new color in the cheekd and lips, you worry less, become good natured where before you were irritable and you find new joy in living. This tonic treatment is useful in dyse pepsia, rheumatism, anemia and nervous disorders. In many cases it is all the medical treatment that is required. Ae a tonic for growing girls Dr. Williams* Pink Pills meet every requirement of the most careful mother. Free booklets on the blood, nerves and diet will be sent on request by the Dr, Williams Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. Y. Your own druggist sells Dr. Wil liams’ Pink Pills or they will be, mailed on receipt of price 50 cents per box, six | boxes $2.50. But he of the ¢