vast possibilities are offered for patriotic service in improving
these serious conditions which confront a self-governing republic."

That the crowding, struggling foreigner of many races and tongues
may take his place as a voting American, in whose hands rests a
predominating influence upon the present and future of this nation, it
is essential that he catch the vision of those fundamental, inspiring
ideals which have made America the hope of the hopeless, the very land
of promise, to the oppressed of the world.

He must be touched by an integrating force, a dynamic power, capable
of revealing and developing the inherent best in him and contributing
to him of the essential best in America.

"Religion alone answers this need in fullest measure. It is the great
quickening power which can resolve ancient inheritance of personal
and race antagonisms and hatreds into a struggle for higher individual
and community welfare."

Eternally true are the Master's words, "Man cannot live by bread
alone"; he must have the spiritual communion which can give to him
and to society the uplifting conception of the Fatherhood of God
and the brotherhood of man. This is the great integrating, harmonizing
power that the church of Christ must bring to the solving of America's
insistent immigrant problem.

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Before taking up in detail the study of what Home Missions is
actually accomplishing as an integrating force, let us turn briefly