Odgen, Utah. One priest and one deacon have charge of a mission among the Japanese. This promises aggressive development.

Honolulu. A very large amount of work, largely of an educational and evangelical nature is being done in the Islands under Bishop Restarick. This work is of far-reaching importance owing to the constant emigration of the Japanese and Chinese converts.

Chinese

San Francisco and Oakland.- Native priest and two women helpers. Afternoon, evening, and night schools. Class for organ instruction. Large and growing Sunday schools.

Honolulu. See above.

Other work among the Chinese is scattered.

Italians

Work is being carried on in many dioceses, but it is scattered, and statistics are difficult to obtain. There are four very successful missions in New York City; one in Chicago; one in Gary, Ind.; one in Philadelphia. In other centers a valuable work is being done, but it is less well organized. The services of the Church appeal to the mystical and emotional side of the Italian temperament; the Sunday schools, kindergartens, and Bible classes provide the necessary balance. Social gatherings and other agencies are used to familarize the people with American ways and customs. The Episcopal Church makes no attempt to proselytize from the Roman Church, but seeks to offer an ecclesiastical home to the many Italians who have drifted away from their own Church.

Swedes

Strong centers of work in Providence, R. I.; New York, N. Y.; Boston, Mass.; Chicago, Ill.; Minneapolis, Minn.; Duluth, Wis. These represent communicant lists of 200 to 500 each. Services are conducted in both Swedish and English. Parish-halls, homes for the aged and infirm and good Sunday schools are among the usual activities. The agricultural and mechanical proclivities of the Swedes tend to make of them either a shifting population or country communities. Among the latter, temporary chapels are used for services, and the work is furthered by the free distribution of bibles, prayer-books, tracts, etc. The Sunday school in country communities is found to be a most efficient agency.

Greeks and Syrians

Attitude of Episcopal Church toward the Greek and Syrian churches must be one of sympathetic understanding and co-operation. These people are as a rule loyal to their own churches. Natural sympathy is rapidly growing between them and the Episcopal Church, through the constant opportunities offered to the latter to afford places of worship with familiar surroundings to communities of Greeks and Syrians who have no such place of their own. Very little, if any," missionary" work is attempted or deemed advisable.

Other Races

Before the war there were a number of German Episcopal churches in the United States. It is impossible to get statistics at present.

French Episcopal churches exist in Philadelphia and New York. Hungarians are organized into Episcopal congregations in New Jersey and Indiana.

Some work is done among the Armenians, chiefly along the line of ecclesiastical hospitality.

In Pennsylvania, and possibly elsewhere, there is active work among the Poles.

Along the New England coast sporadic attempts have been made to reach the unchurched Portuguese.

In the case of all races of immigrants, the Episcopal Church relies largely upon the distribution of bibles in the language of the immigrant, and upon the Book of Common Prayer which is now procurable in the languages of most of the immigrant races.

The Methodist Episcopal Church and the Immigrant The Methodist Episcopal Church has been a strong factor in the Americanization of those coming from foreign shores. It is significant that the celebration of one hundred years of Methodist Missions is coincident with the close of the first century of immigration as recorded by the immigration authorities. The Metho dist Episcopal Church placed its first missionary among the French at New Orleans in 1819. Since then its task has involved the greeting of the changing groups of newcomers as they have arrived, teaching them the way of evangelical Christianity and guiding them to acceptance of the highest ideals of American democracy.

While for administrative purposes there have been foreignspeaking conferences, the tendency has been for these people to become a part of English-speaking churches as rapidly as possible. The foreign tongue has been used because it has been the best means of approach. There are still German, Swedish, Norwegian and Danish, Japanese and Chinese conferences in the Methodist Episcopal Church. But the Italian conference has been dissolved, the last meeting of the Italian preachers being conducted entirely in English. There is a strong movement on foot to have the other non-English speaking conferences merged with English-speaking conferences in the near future.

The process by which the Methodist Episcopal Church has performed its ministry of leading alien folks up the pathway of Christian democracy has varied. The Jefferson Park Italian Methodist Episcopal Church, New York, instils the dreams of the new land through clubs. Of these there are boy and girl scouts, glee club, school of music, orchestra, cooking class, night school for English-Italian and Italian-English, mothers' meetings, choral class, bugle-drum corps, athletic club and typesetting and printing club. During these days the women meet to make garments for their men 66 over there."

The Plaza Community Church at Los Angeles, Cal., is now in process of erection for a ministry to Latin-Americans. In addition to the church proper there is a six-story building and roof garden. Here will be carried on every phase of industry, recreation, and religious training needed. The program of this church is modeled largely after the work of the Morgan Memorial Church, Boston, which, in addition to its regular evangelistic, industrial, children's and rescue work, has now a fine Church of All Nations.

The Church of All Nations at 9 Second avenue, New York. carries on an Americanization Christianizing work among several nationalities. Among the most significant of its present activities is its labors among the Russians. It has become the Russian center of New York. Here at the forum conducted weekly are discussed all the problems of Russia and the United States. Many of the men who have figured prominently in recent Russian affairs have spoken from this platform. A Russian periodical is also published, which extends the influence of this ministry throughout the United States and Canada.

The Old Broadway Methodist Episcopal Church, Cleveland, Ohio, is in the center of the Bohemian population of that city.

Apart from services conducted for adults in Bohemian, all of its services are in English. Through its Sunday school it has for years been reaching and influencing thousands of the youth of the Bohemian immigrant, many of whom are now officials of the church and leaders in the affairs of the community. A $300,000 building adequate for the needs of this ministry is now being built through the aid of the Board of Home Missions and Church Extensions. All of the churches mentioned receive help from this source.

These are but types of the work that is being done. Throughout the denomination local English speaking churches are assimilating the foreign-born and the children of foreign-born without any ado about it. They come into the membership of the church as a part of its regular ministry. They share all other community blessings, why not this blessing, which is greatest of all?

At the present time the Board of Home Missions and Church Extension of the Methodist Episcopal Church carries on work in the United States among the following people: Armenians, Bohemians, Chinese, Danish, Finnish, Italians, Welsh, Greeks, Japanese, Koreans, Norwegians, Portuguese, Slavs, Mexican and other Latin-Americans, Syrians, Germans, Swedes, etc. A bureau of foreign work has supervision of these varied enterprises.

Baptists Mobilized for War Service

The following significant action has been taken by the Board of Managers of the American Baptist Home Mission Society on the recommendation of the Headquarters Council:

Entrusted with the interests of the American Baptist Home Mission Society, which has a large share in Christianizing America, and through America the world, whose watchword is "North America for Christ," and whose work in each generation. is to pass to future generations the primary gifts to Christianity. and its by-products, the board of managers desires to announce to the world its attitude and position in this present world crisis.

Immediately following the declaration of war with Germany, an official communication was addressed to our foreign-speaking missionaries, requesting from each a formal statement concerning his loyalty to the United States, his adherence to the principles of democracy, and insisting that each missionary must be loyal to the government under whose protection he lives, whether a citizen or not. He was also asked to give written assurance that

his own personal service, and the use of his meeting house, if it were needed, shall be placed at the disposal of the Red Cross and other allied activities.

We encouraged the organization of the War Commission of the Northern Baptist Convention, and have advanced considerable amounts that it might have sufficient funds with which to carry on its helpful work, pending contributions from our constituency, co-operating therein with the American Baptist Publication Society and the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society. We have encouraged service to be rendered by our missionary pastors in the camps and cantonments, giving also the labors of various servants of the society, notably that of the Superintendent of Evangelism, whose salaries and expenses have been paid as a part of the society's contribution toward spiritualizing the forces engaged in winning the war and in safeguarding democracy for the world.

We have also encouraged our foreign-speaking missionaries to become army chaplains, releasing them from their present positions to engage in this important work, and have granted them indefinite absence from service, to labor under the Young Men's Christian Association, or to enter military service in the American, French and Italian armies.

Rural Service Among Presbyterian Patriots

At Batesville, Mississippi, the Presbyterian pastor, Rev. R. A. N. Wilson, toured the county with a committee made up of bankers and business men, in the recent drive for Liberty Bonds and Red Cross. The county went "over the top" in its subscriptions. Mr. Wilson exerted a great influence also through the negro ministers of the county, who came to him for direction and advice. Their people have been large subscribers in this county to the Red Cross. One old colored man came to a banker seeking a confidential interview. He brought out $2,000 in crumpled and moldy bills which had not been unfolded for years. He had been accustomed to keep a deposit account of $200 in the bank and the banker supposed that was all he had. The $2,000 was his first investment in any securities. In many towns and counties of Mississippi the negroes contributed the quota to the Red Cross subscriptions and the white folks put them "over the top." The State was asked for $123,000 and subscribed $1,000,000.