3. It epitomizes, compacts and enforces thought.

4. It is easily expressed and passed on to others.

5. It is often remembered when other things are forgotten.

Our slogan is:

Christian America, the Lasting Liberty Bond.

A slogan set forth last Fourth of July was:

One Nation, One God, One Ideal.

Under the heading of this slogan the Centenary Bulletin of the Methodist Episcopal Church said:

"What could be more fitting for Independence Day this year than the celebration shared by all the various races which are being merged in the making of America? One newspaper called it a great public demonstration by the foreign-born of their loyalty to the United States.' More than this, it was a demonstration of what America has begun to do for these people, as well as of what they propose to do for her.

"In New York City fifty different races had part in a pageant depicting the contributions which their homelands have made to the cause of freedom. These representatives of other peoples came with their ideals to unite with the common ideal of America. The Fourth of July has strengthened America, as it strengthened the component parts by welding them together. A stronger nation it will be, as the once alien people are brought into closer fellowship.

"Is not this the ideal of the Centenary? It means nothing if not the blending of the ideals of many races which are found in the parish of Methodism today. It is worth no second thought if it have not as its deep purpose such ministrations as will build the foreign-born into the life of the nation and the life of the Church. The Centenary does mean this, and it will do this. In city and country the program has place for the men and women of other races to show them that a Church cares and a nation cares, as it shows them that a God cares.

"The Centenary program of the Board of Home Missions is of deepest significance in the emphasis which it places upon the Americanization of the strangers who are among

us; the Centenary program in its entirety means most in its stress upon the redemptive message of Christian democracy to all the races of the world."

In some churches it may be well to devote a little time to the making of slogans. Perhaps this can best be done in a part of one of the young people's meetings. It is a stimulating exercise. Here are some samples:

Fellowship and Brotherhood for the Foreign Born;

Bridge all Chasms with Brotherhood;

Fuse Fine Feeling in Fellowship;

United in Sympathy and Service;

Liberty and Loyalty from Many Lands.

Follow-up Plans

The most important part of Home Mission Week will be what follows after. Shall it all end in fine feeling?

May there not remain an abiding spirit of prayer for the foreigner?

A continuing expectancy that he will enter into our charitable. fellowship, and in friendly relations really become "one of us?" Permanent plans for prosecution in the church and in the community?

A church in America possessing more "the mind of Christ toward all men?"

II. SIGNIFICANT FACTS FROM FAR AND NEAR

A Cross-Section of American Life

Dr. Charles L. White, in his book "The Churches at Work," describes the mixed relations into which an American enters in ordinary every-day contact with people:

"On Monday morning a Roumanian ash-man cleaned his cellar and a Pole whitewashed its walls. A Hollander pruned his vines; a German plumber came to stop a leak in his bathroom and this man's helper was a Dane. He remembered that his cook was a Swede and the waitress was a Norwegian. As he left his home for his office a seamstress entered to help his wife. She was a Belgian, and the man who was painting his front fence was from Switzerland. He left his laundry with a Chinaman. Later he visited his Russian tailor, ordered groceries of a Welshman, meat of

a Scotchman, and purchased his fish dinner for the next day at a Frenchman's store. As he waited for an electric car an Italian vegetable man passed, while he was talking with an Irish policeman. The next day he bought some hardware from an Armenian and learned that his milkman was a Lapp, and his cobbler was a Hungarian. That evening a Philippine bell-boy showed him to a room in a hotel and he learned that among its waiters were Slovaks, Greeks, and Servians.

"The next day he lunched in a Turkish restaurant, engaged a Syrian to mend his rugs and purchased two more of an Armenian. In the afternoon he met by accident a college classmate, a Bulgarian, who introduced him to a Montenegrin. That evening he learned that the Austrian consul of the city had rented the house opposite. The following Sunday he met a Cuban Protestant at church and found a Mexican, a Braziliau, a Lithuanian, a Peruvian, and a Haitian in a popular Sunday school class of one hundred men. That evening a Japanese merchant and his family attended service and the next day, as chairman of the committee that looked after the repairs of the church, he learned that the Portuguese sexton had died, and he selected a Canadian in his place. The following day the man who washed his office windows proved to be a Spaniard, and a Jew wished him a Merry Christmas. Soon after this, in an early train, he counted twenty-eight passengers in the car. Four were reading German papers, twelve Jewish, six Italian, and he concluded that the only American-born man in the car besides himself was a negro!

Russians in Idaho Make Good Congregational Americans In the vicinity of American Falls and Kimana, Idaho, there are eight churches whose members without exception came from Russia. A hundred years ago their ancestors sought freedom. from Prussian misrule, and emigrated to the wheat raising districts around Odessa. Within the last quarter of a century these people have again sought freedom in Idaho, Kansas and other wheat raising states in large numbers, and many have sought religious freedom in the Congregational Church. During the century in Russia, they retained their German languages, still speak the same, and have maintained the German conferences.

Recently they organized an English Congregational Conference. A constitution was adopted, and officers elected regardless of nationality. Nearly every man present wore a flag, Red Cross, Liberty Loan or Service Star badge.

The members of this church, and all the other German churches, are clearing up the land which was raw sage-brush desert six years ago. Practically all are home-steaders under the desert claim law. They had a crop failure last year, and have a like prospect this year, yet the church at Kimana, which was asked for $50 for the Red Cross, paid $250 which makes them 100 per cent. perfect, as every man and every family made some payment.

Italian Work in Grantwood, N. J.

Outside of our social and religious work, the pastor has been and is doing some work for the government, being a "Four Minute Man," meeting many people who have never heard of an Italian Protestant preacher before. Through the local Red Cross, we have been in touch with many new families; and also through the draft, many new boys have attended our meetings. The following are a few helps given in American brotherhood: Speeches made in behalf of the government... Boys helped in the questionnaire of the draft... Compensation cases settled through our mediation. Letters for people received in our office..... Hospital calls made.....

Work provided for people of our mission

People recruited for the Public Service Reserve....

Families helped to get allotment from the government for

boys in the army

10

75

3

91

4

11

60

9

Besides all this, the pastor is an agent for the selling of War Savings Stamps. Eleven of our boys are serving Uncle Sam for the cause of democracy.- Congregationalist.

German Congregationalists

The church of fifty-six members has a Service Flag with eight stars, and more have been called out. The pastor has preached for the Liberty Loan and been active in securing subscriptions. Considering the means of his people, the church has made a good record. Billings, Montana.

Patriotic Women

Our Auxiliary took part in the Red Cross campaign, and also the men from our church helped the women to canvass for the money. We collected over $400 in our district, and were much pleased with our success, as our district had only about 15 per cent. business men, the rest being laboring men who had given through their shops. Our auxiliary took part in the great parade. Just about one-half could march-eight-yet they received great applause from the people standing by. They carried a banner with the sign, "Slovak Congregational Church Auxiliary," which was the only banner except Italians indicating foreign element. Although there were many Slavic people who took part in the parade, they went under names of some American clubs.- Slovak Congregational Church, Pittsburgh, Pa.

The ladies of the church (Congregational) are devoting much of their time to the Red Cross work. Sixteen of our boys are in military service. Some are in France, and some in the camps at home.- Mankato and Kasota, Minn.

The Various Ministries of the Protestant Episcopal Church The work among Oriental races chiefly limited to the Pacific Coast, may be described in the following brief paragraphs:

Japanese

Sacramento.- Resident deaconess; native priest serving at

intervals.

San Francisco. Thriving mission in charge of an American. woman. Large kindergarten superintended by a Japanese Christian. Church services every Sunday.

Los Angeles. Work in charge of a native priest, with church building, and parish house. Average congregation, sixty-four. Sixty-six in the Sunday school. Sewing class. Cooking class. English night school. Kindergarten.

Seattle. Work in charge of Japanese deacon and a Japanese Bible-woman, with several American helpers. Thirty-two communicants. Forty children in Sunday school. Steady progress reported here, as well as in Taylor and Tacoma. These are all centers of wide-spread influence, as the converts move to other places.