THE OLD FAMILY DOCTOR ALL THINKING PEOPLE are cautioned against using witch hazel, which has no standard of purity and quality. Within the past two months seventy samples of witch hazel have been purchased from as many wholesale and retail dealers in six of the largest cities of the United States, and the most reputable analytical chemists of the country certify that out of the seventy, fifty-two showed the presence of WOOD ALCOHOL, or formaldehyde or both. Do you care to take chances of poisoning? If not insist on your druggist supplying you with an article which has been the standard of purity and quality for sixty years. It is THE OLD FAMILY DOCTOR POND'S EXTRACT The OLIVER RECORD UNEQUALED The Standard Visible Writer CATALOGUE FREE The Oliver Typewriter Co. 310 Broadway NEW YORK CITY When you write to advertisers, please mention The Baptist Home Mission Monthly HOME MISSION MONTHLY PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN BAPTIST HOME MISSION SOCIETY REV. HOWARD B. GROSE, EDITOR 25 cents. CLUBS OF FIVE TO TEN, 45 cents per year. CLUBS OF TEN TO TWENTY, 40 cents per year. CLUBS OF TWENTY OR MORE, 30 cents per year. in the date is the receipt for renewal. has expired, and will notify us to that effect, it will be stopped. CHANGES:-When sending change of address, be sure to send the old address as well as the new one. Address THE BAPTIST HOME MISSION MONTHLY, 312 Fourth Avenue, New York City OMING by the hundreds of thousands are the Slavs. It is common to look pessimistically upon this new invasion of the Huns, and to forget the hopeful side. The Slavs are good and bad, like other peoples. In closing an article on this subject, Miss Kate Holladay Claghorn presents this optimistic view, which will not injure any of us : "The writer will risk just one generalization which, it is hoped, the ultimate facts will bear out, that in the case of the new immigration we shall see a repetition of the story of the old immigration we are so familiar with. First comes the ignorant and poor but industrious peasant, the young man, alone, without wife or family. For a few years he works and saves, living according to a 'standard of life' which shocks his older established neighbors, and we may guess would often shock his people at home. At first he makes plans for going back, sends his savings home, and perhaps goes back himself. But he usually returns to this country, with a wife. America has now become his home, savings are invested here, land is bought, and a little house built. The growing children are educated in American schools, learn American ways, and forcibly elevate the 'standard of life' of the family. The second generation, in the fervor of its enthusiasm for change and progress becomes turbulent, unruly, and is despaired of. Out of the chaos, however, emerges a third generation, of creditable character, from whom much may be expected. Our Austrian, Hungarian and Russian newcomers are still in the first and second stages and there seems no good reason why they should not pull through successfully to the third. "But in that endeavor we can either help or materially hinder them, according to our treatment of them, as employees, as producers, as fellow citizens. America, for her own sake, owes to the immigrant not only the opportunities for 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' that she promises to every man, but a sympathetic appreciation of his humanity, and an intelligent assistance in developing it." These are true and weighty words. What should be the attitude of our Protestant Christianity to these peoples? Here is the call to enlarged and efficient home mission effort. Most of them have been born and trained in the Greek or Roman Catholic Church. They now come within the influence of Protestantism, with its totally different ideals and civilization. They cannot escape the effects of the new environment. The children will be open to the Protestant influences, even if the parents are not. The spirit of democracy will deeply penetrate those to whom it comes as a revelation and inspiration. That spirit makes inevitably for religious as well as civil liberty. All that we have to do is to be faithful to our opportunities, and the evangelization of this new immigration will result in a thorough Americanization and a reliable citizenship that will make for the best in our development as a nation. |