15. * Is there good reason for being optimistic? Upon what condition may we be hopeful? REFERENCES FOR ADVANCED STUDY.--CHAPTER VII I. Study further some of the specific effects of the immigrants' presence. Warne: The Slav Invasion, V, VI. Wood: Americans in Process, VII, VIII. Riis: How the Other Half Lives, XVIII, XXI. II. What can you learn about the present status of the parochial school movement, especially in your own vicinity? Refer to local periodicals and daily papers. III. Is assimilation of foreigners taking place everywhere, or only in certain places? McLanahan: Our People of Foreign Speech, I. Hall: Immigration, 172, 182. Wood: Americans in Process, XII. Strong: The Twentieth Century City, IV. IV. Are our school facilities, actual or prospective, likely to prove sufficient for the demands made upon them? Riis: How the Other Half Lives, XV, XVI. Wood: Americans in Process, X. Hunter: Poverty, V. _The Christian Churches in America stand face to face with a tremendous task. It is a challenge to their faith, their devotion, their zeal. The accomplishment of it will mean not only the ascendancy of Christianity in the homeland, but also the gaining of a position of vantage for world-wide evangelization._--E. E. Chivers, D.D. VIII THE HOME MISSION OPPORTUNITY The question of supreme interest to us is the religious question. What share shall the Church have in making Christian Americans of these immigrants? How may Church and State work together for the solution of the problem, on the solution of which very largely the future prosperity of the State and the Church depends.--_Charles L. Thompson, D.D._ The future success of missions will be largely affected by the success of the Church in dealing with problems that lie at her very door. The connection between home and foreign missionary work is living. The conversion of the world is bound up with the national character of professedly Christian lands. --_Rev. Herbert Anderson, English Missionary in India._ "The blood of the people! changeless tide through century, creed, and race, Still one, as the sweet salt sea is one, though tempered by sun and place, The same in ocean currents and the same in sheltered seas: Forever the fountain of common hopes and kindly sympathies. Indian and Negro, Saxon and Celt, Teuton and Latin and Gaul, Mere surface shadow and sunshine, while the sounding unifies all! One love, one hope, one duty theirs! no matter the time or kin, There never was a separate heart-beat in all the races of men." VIII THE HOME MISSION OPPORTUNITY _I. Alien Accessibility_ [Sidenote: A Unique Mission Field]