resent a united front and press forward
irresistibly. For the hastening of this day let us pray and work.

[Sidenote: The Task of the Ages]

Thus the problem always resolves itself to this at last: God has set for
American Protestant Christianity the gigantic task of the ages--the
home-foreign-mission task--nothing less than the assimilation of all
these foreign peoples who find a home on this continent into a common
Americanism so that they shall form a composite American
nation--Christian, united, free, and great. What could be more glorious
than to have part in the solution of this problem? To this supreme
service, young men and women of America, you are called of God. What say
you: shall it be Alien or American?

QUESTIONS FOR CHAPTER VIII

AIM: TO MAKE HOPEFUL BEGINNINGS A STRONG INCENTIVE TO GREAT
EXPANSION OF CHRISTIAN WORK FOR FOREIGNERS

I. _Faults on Both Sides._

1. What issues hang upon our work for the incoming foreigners?

2. * What barriers must be broken down in order to approach them
successfully?

3. What do these immigrants (speaking of them in general terms)
possess, and what do they lack, spiritually?

4. Is there a lack in our own personal attitude and feelings toward
them? What is it?

5. * If you had come as an average immigrant, what would you be
likely to think of "America" and the "Americans"?

II. _Missionary Beginnings._

6. When and where is it most easy to approach the foreigner? What
will a "lurking prejudice" do?

7. What Christian workers are there at the ports of entry? Give
instances of the results of their labors.

8. Can we possibly rest content with what is now being done on
these lines? Why not?

9. * Should all denominations unite in an effort to meet the
situation? Will you strive for it?

10. What has been the history of evangelical churches down town in
New York City? What centers of Christian work may be found there?
What form would a more adequate provision be likely to take?

11. Among what classes of immigrants has the most successful
Christian work been done?

12. Among what classes has it been thus far sporadic and
experimental? Give instances of successful work for Italians.

III. _Expansion Needed and Possible._

13. * Are those who are ordinarily neglected responsive to the
right sort of effort? How may there b