regions all are among miners or mill hands, joyfully affording the
privileges of the Gospel to the poor.

"These churches have made a large contribution to the religious
life of the state; they are fervently and effectively evangelistic.
It is probably true that the Welsh people are the most thoroughly
evangelized of any in the state to-day. Twelve churches have
received one hundred or more members each on confession of faith
within a year.

"In these later months these Welsh Christians are pressing into
the evangelization of other nationalities, which constitute a very
large part of the population in the anthracite regions, and their
splendid zeal helped to make the 'Billy Sunday' campaign in
Wilkes-Barre and Scranton the most wonderful, even that spectacular
man has ever conducted. As personal workers they are unsurpassed,
and since the revivals they have organized workers' bands and Bible
classes, and have gone out into all the country for fifty miles
around holding meetings in which singing, personal testimony and
prayer have been made marvelously effective, while their earnest
labors in local churches which they have joined as members, have
in many cases verily revolutionized the life and multiplied the
power of the churches." [Footnote: Rev. A.E. Ricker, Congregational
Home Missionary Society.]

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The Italian immigrant is perhaps more widely distributed throughout
our land than any of the other nationalities composing the immigration
of the past twenty years.