s, quick to learn, temperate?

16. Mention some form of Christian work for Slavs or Jews about
which you know.

REFERENCES FOR ADVANCED STUDY.--CHAPTER V

I. _Further Study as to Race Origin and Inter-relationship of the
Slavs._

Warne: The Slav Invasion, III.
McLanahan: Our People of Foreign Speech, IV.

II. _National Conditions in Europe which the Slavs Seek to Escape._

Hall: Immigration, 60-65.

III. _Social and Moral Effects Produced by the Slav Invasion of the
Anthracite Regions._

Warne: The Slav Invasion, IV, VII.

IV. _Factors in Slavic History and Conditions Favoring and
Hindering the Access of the Gospel._

McLanahan: Our People of Foreign Speech, 34-58.
Charities and Commons, issues 1905-06.

V. _Conditions Among Russian Jews._

Statements of Jewish authors as to conditions
among Russian Jews in their native lands and in
America.

Bernheimer: The Russian Jew in the United
States, I (B), IV (A), VI (A).

_The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the
storm center. The city has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.
Here is heaped the social dynamite; here the dangerous elements are
multiplied and concentered._--Josiah Strong.

VI

THE FOREIGN PERIL OF THE CITY

The city is the most difficult and perplexing problem of modern
times.--_Francis Lieber._

We must save the city if we would save the nation. Municipal government
and city evangelization together constitute the distinctive problem of
the city, for this generation at least.--_Josiah Strong._

Talk of Dante's Hell, and all the horrors and cruelties of the torture
chamber of the lost! The man who walks with open eyes and bleeding heart
through the shambles of our civilization needs no such fantastic images
of the poet to teach him horror.--_General Booth._

With the influx of a large foreign population into the great cities,
there have come also foreign customs and institutions, laxity and
license--those phases of evil which are the most insidious foes of the
purity and strength of a people. The slums of our large cities are but
the stagnant pools of illiteracy, vice, pauperism, and crime, annually
fed by this floodtide of immigration.--_R. M. Atchison._

You can kill a man with a tenement as easily as with an ax.--_Jacob
Riis._

Our foreign colonies are to a large extent in the cities of o