Show TASK CREATED I y SI Problems of MethodIst i Church Described By Speaker I CASCADE Ida Sept t. t Home missions problems problem arise oise I very largely out of changes hangea In pop pop-I i said Dr D I 1 Forsyth corresponding secretary of the board ot of home missions and church i I extension of the Methodist Episco- Episco pal church Philadelphia at t the an- an annual nual conference In session here to- to I day Dr Forsyth 8 said I I At 1 the harvest time In the slate III ate of Kansas Kan there were In all immigrant from to 10 grant harvesters har In that state who I assisted In the wIH t t crop hen that task was corn com large bodies hodies of these men I IDa moved on to Minnesota and the I Da-I Da- Da kotas for fOl the wheat harvest In tho those I slates Later on they go co to the rest est to 10 help In harvesting har apple an and nut I crops in California and In later fall fail lumber Indus Indus- Industries industries move on to the great tries In the northwest WITHOUT HO HOSIER IJ p I These groups group arc aro known as 1 the migrant groups or of America Their movements are so rapid Thal the they I 1 are without homes and In many jn in- instances stances without families and have ha I Ino no opportunity for church This Is one of the most stub stub- horn born problems faced by th the hoard board cities In In 1900 we had no America Our American I I lion was almost exclusively ely rural Since that time there have ha been great movements mo of population front rural communities into Ioto the great grat cities until now more than half of Americas America's Is found lound In the cities or of the country I Out of 01 this change conies comI com I many man problems I FOn One of 01 the most interesting and I at the same saml time the most serious I i rural problems ot of America Is the tho problem arIsing out ot of the move move- movement ment of oC foreign speaking people i from the great centers of oC this move move-I coun- coun country try try- tl into the thc rural neighborhoods agricultural fields of at America The church Is doing very little and has haa done very little to admin I later IstEr to the these e widely scattered foreign for for- foreign eign people The truth or of the mat mat- matter ter Is that thEY hats hat's been largely left atone alone mat mat-I en the war broke out In the city of Pittsburg the Methodist Episcopal church hall had only one negro church and one negro I preacher When the war closed we hall had enough negro population to toI constitute an entire district super super- i I district and enough h ministers to man this entire ells lis- A similar situation could be bee cited In any an of the indus indus- industrial I trial cities ot of the north Indus I Another very ery grave home mis i i problem arising In America has grown out of 01 the rural Indus Indus- Industrial trial development dC In this country I. I For example there are three thre million mil lion Ion people involved ld In the coal mining industry of America and andt t these se people are arc all located it I small mining communities There are vast arEas ot of mining c camps into which the tho Protestant church has not yet come |