Show DUTY OF CHURCH IS 18 TO AMERICANIZE IMMIGRANTS EDUCATOR V 1 I I S YS SA-YS A Y S i iI t I YOnI YORK Feb 2 Dr Walter Laidlaw Laid Laid- law told the tho Now New cw York Federation of or Churches hurches at Its Ita nineteenth nth annual m meetIng meeting meet meet- etIng et- et ing yesterday that l there are arc now moro mora foreign born per persons ons jiving within a ra radius ra- ra dius a of or nineteen miles of oJ N New w York City than thal there ero In the whole United d Stale States Stases In 10 o. o I Thc The church mU must t enter arnon among these people pImple on a a- a abig big basis 2 said Dr DI We Vc n now v face race opportunities we ha hays haW not faced hi In four OUr de as to teach teach her here herc In the In-the the the vicinity of C ow cw Yorka York a a. majority or ot r alt air the Immigrants who wh are obtaining their first contact with American culture and Ideals Ideal That this task of Americanization even when extended to would not prove prO impossible was wag the assertion of oC Prof Prot Edward A. A Steiner of ot Grinnell colleg college col cal lege leg 1 Jo Iowa Jowa J 1 know kno a yoUn Chinese Chineo who WIlO ylo was tnt sent hero to be educated as 98 a ml missionary missionary mission mission- lon a ary e ald ald Profesor r Steiner When he returned home he was waK asked to participate pate pato In Ina R. R church service service- 1 as 5 an assist assist- s ant He tIc found that he had not learned the service thoroughly and he lIe asked ked the presiding clergyman the thc r rather rough Qu question Uon Sa Say bishop where do I bl butt buttIn t tIn In on Tat question never could have come I from I m a a t d Chinese This This young man mana mental menial processes surely had gained the American n quality of directness and aM I lack of coT mony |