Whether immigrants remain _Aliens_ or become _Americans_ depends less on
them than on ourselves.
JOSIAH STRONG.
_New York, June 26, 1906._
_We may well ask whether this insweeping immigration is to
foreignize us, or we are to Americanize it. Our safety demands the
assimilation of these strange populations, and the process of
assimilation becomes slower and more difficult as the proportion of
foreigners increases._
--Josiah Strong.
THE ALIEN ADVANCE
"And ELISHA prayed, and said, Jehovah, I pray thee, open his
eyes, that he may see. And Jehovah opened the eyes of the young man: and
he saw" (2 Kings vi. 17). Elisha's prayer is peculiarly fitting now. The
first need of American Protestantism is for clear vision, to discern the
supreme issues involved in immigration, recognize the spiritual
significance and divine providence in and behind this marvelous
migration of peoples, and so see Christian obligation as to rise to the
mission of evangelizing these representatives of all nations gathered on
American soil.--_The Author._
Out of the remote and little-known regions of northern, eastern, and
southern Europe forever marches a vast and endless army.
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