the lovely land of Italy.

Home Missions is not bounded in its results by the seas surrounding
the home land, but reaches far away into the heart of the old world
across the seas.

It is not possible here to differentiate the various races and
peoples in our land, each of whose particular circumstances and
need and reaction upon our national life makes an urgent claim
upon the integrating power of Home Missions and the church.

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Passing mention only can be made of the special needs of the
Mexicans in the United States, thousands upon thousands of whom
are voting citizens and yet are quite unable through deep
ignorance, and lack of standards of life to take their places as
part of the people who govern.

El Paso, Texas, shows 40,000 permanent Mexican residents; Southern
California, 80,000. They form one-half the population of Arizona
and more than half of New Mexico and are found in other Western
and Southwestern states.

Home Missions is giving a very valuable and varied service to
these Americans from old Mexico.

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The Orientals of America form a distinct group. Marked racial