Show DR YOUNG AT fOR INflUX Methodist Pastor MaKes MaRes a Plea for Home as Well a athe as a's the Foreign Missionary WorK Other Sermons Immigration with with- its mani manifold old problems problems problems lems the burden it is becoming to America its problems o citizenship and the care of the children who are arc born of f foreign reign illiterates ates s was discussed at considerable length by the Rev Benjamin Ben Benjamin jamin Young at the First Methodist Iet odist church yesterday morning The text was from II Kings v vi vL 17 And Elisha prayed and said Lord LordI I pray thee hee open his eyes t that at he may see And nd the L Lord rd opened the el eyes ees s 's of df the young voun man and he saw Prom rom this text Dr pro Young Young- drew his subject subject sub sub- Gr Grave ve Home Missionary and National Na Problems Dr Df Young introduced his address ss by showing that thai missionary work should begin at home He showed that such was the idea of Christ for he bade his disciples begin th their ir work close at hand starting with Jerusal Jerusalem m. m Few Tew people are are aware of the grave problems which an alien life is brin bringing bring bring- ing to us said Dr Young Immigrants Immigrants grants are coming to us now at the rate of more than a million a year rear On last Wednesday the press dispatches contained the news that ships carrying carry carry- ing lag 15 immigrants had reached New NewYork NewYork NewYork York harbor that day If we group the immigration problem of the year ending ending end end- ing June 1905 we have something like this twp Twenty Italian cities of people each Or r an Italian city as lar large e as Minneapolis f The Bohemians Bohemians Bo Bo- Bo- Bo Magyars Jews and Slavs Slays would make 2 I towns or a city nearly nearly nearly near near- ly as be largo large as Detroit The Jews Poles and other rac races s fleeing from persecution in Russia would people 18 towns or a city the size of or of Providence There would also be four German cities of people six Scandinavians one of French one of Greeks one of Japanese Japanese Jap Jap- anese six and a half of English five of Irish and nearly two of Scotch a and d Welsh Further we should have six SIX towns o of ot say and each peopled peopled peo peo- pled respectively by by- byBel Bel Belgians ans Dutch Portuguese Swiss and European Eu Eu- Turks The Asiatic Turks would till fill ll another village of There would also be a Servian village of 2000 and a a. Bulgarian and a Montene Montenegrin in village of the same number There would be a Spanish village of 2600 and anda a Chinese village of 2100 and another assortment nt of which would make a town of But we are not yet through for the West Indian immigrants would d make a a. city nearly as large as Ogden and the South Americans and Mexicans a 3 town much larger than Logan Besides Bo- Bo sides all of these there would be a town of strays or stra stragglers from the ends o of the earth which would make makeup up a town of say to Now think of these different towns or cities cities otties cit ott- ies as being wholly foreign unfamiliar with the American ideal and with no very definite understanding of our principles of government and you ou begin begin begin be be- gin to grasp in some som sense the problem which our open door furnishes us This is but hilt the record of a sing single e year anc and that which ended with June 1905 Let me give you some Bome more startling startling start start- ling hog figures It is said that the tho number num ber her of illiterates s 's over 14 years of age who came to us in 1905 would make a city as large as Jersey City or a place greater than the city of Indian apolis Think of a population of with not a single gingle individual in a It able to read a morning paper in any language In that year more than illiterates came to us from Italy At th the same time there were Polish illiterates Jewish Slays Slavs Magyars Mag and Lithuanian Lithuanian Lithuanian anian and Syrian and Turkish These illiterates come almost exclusively exclusive exclusive- ly IT from the south and east of f Europe That quarter one-quarter of a a. million nillion of illiterates illiterates come to us in a single year i is food for reflection Pity the ignorant ones who come but what about the Governments from which they come The minister went on to show that there was plenty of work for the Christian Christian Christian Chris Chris- tian close at hand liand and that the seas need not be traveled for missionary work He declared red that there is wor work everywhere for the workers of philanthropy philanthropy philan philan- to do good The sweatshop where men and women women toil for a pit pit- tance taneo the mills and factories with their thousands of illiterates and the thousands thou sands upon upon thousands thousands' of children employees employees em in factories laundries bakeries saloons saloon stores and mines mmes the speaker speake declared were fertile fields in which to work C C The series of reviva revival meetings s that tha have been held in the First Baptist Baptis church for foT the last two weeks came to toa toa ton a n close yesterday with three services The meetings closed the stay in Salt Sal Lake of P Prof B. B P P.- P. Stout the noted sin singing ing evan evangelist Tho The Rev D. D A A. Brown preached the last sermon taking tak- tak lug ing for for- his subject How II How I May Know That I Am Ama a Christian |