eader and student
the most important points in the chapter, and to stimulate further
meditation and thought. Those marked * should encourage discussion. The
leader is not expected to use all of these questions, and should use his
judgment in eliminating or adding others that are in harmony with the
aim of the lesson. For helps for conducting each class session, the
leader should not fail to write to the Secretary of his Home Missionary
Board.

QUESTIONS FOR CHAPTER I

AIM: TO REALIZE OUR RESPONSIBILITY IN RECEIVING ONE MILLION ALIENS A
YEAR

I. _To Learn by Comparison the Magnitude of a Million Aliens._

1. At what rate per annum is our population now being increased by
immigration?

2. What are the sources of this invasion? Its principal gateway?

3. What comparison helps you most to realize the number of
immigrants?

4. What are some of the largest groups in the mass, as classified
by nationality? By race? By knowledge or ignorance? By fitness for
labor?

5. What states may be compared with last year's arrivals?

II. _To Realise the Proportion of Our Population that has Immigrated
since 1820._

6. How does the total number of our immigrants compare with the
population of Germany? England? Canada?

7. Has the number of immigrants been increasing steadily? Will it
tend to increase?

8. Has the present rate been long continued? What proportion of the
population of the United States is derived from immigration
subsequent to the American Revolution?

9. * Do you think there is any serious menace in such large numbers
of immigrants? Why?

III. _Why do Aliens Come_?

10. Name the principal causes of immigration. The principal
classes.

11. What American ideals have the greatest attractive power? What
opportunities?

12. Give some typical instances of immigrants' stories. * Would you
have wished to come under the same circumstances?

13. What other forces stimulate immigration to the United States?
What agencies?

IV. _What Should be our Attitude toward Aliens, and What is our
Individual Responsibility for Them_?

14. * What is the Christian attitude toward these newcomers? How
can we remove prejudice?

15. * What is our personal responsibility as Christians in
improving the condition of aliens?

REFERENCES FOR ADVANCED STUDY.-