Germans 170 8,000 47 Scandinavians 95 7,495 79 Slavs 12 636 58 All other Nationalities, (including Italians, French, Greek, Armenian, Chinese, Welsh, etc) 102 8,222 78 --- ------ --- 379 24,353 262 WORK OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH AMONG THE FOREIGN POPULATION The Domestic Section of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States carries on work to a limited extent among the Swedes. There is a general missionary in the East, who has charge of this work in the three dioceses of Rhode Island, New York, and Massachusetts, and one in the northwest. In the eastern dioceses named there were in 1906 fifteen Swedish missions and parishes, with 1,897 communicants, ministered to by five clergymen. The western general missionary visited Sweden during the past year for the purpose of finding suitable university students for the ministry in this country. There are missions in Duluth and at other points. The Annual Report says: "Of all the work under the care of the general missionary, none is more important than the mission to Scandinavian immigrants arriving at Ellis Island, New York, for it acts as a special feeder to the church. The Scandinavian immigrants outnumber those from any other Protestant country." What further work is done for the foreign peoples is carried on by the local parishes, such as Grace Church, Trinity, Saint George's, and Saint Bartholomew's in New York, which work among the Italians and other nationalities, and equip their missions in a manner worthy of imitation. LUTHERAN WORK IN THE UNITED STATES Large numbers of the immigrants are Lutherans. The resources of the Lutheran church in America to care for her people are thus stated by the Rev. J. N. Lenker, D.D., in the _Lutheran World_, the church organ: For the Germans, 5,000 pastors, 8,000 churches, and 1,200,000 communicant members. For the Scandinavians, 1,800 pastors, 14,300 churches, and 500,000 communicant members. For the Finns, three synods, 58 pastors, 187 churches, and 22,149 communicant members. For the Slovaks, about 200 organizations with a growing number of pastors and a very loyal constituency. For the Letts and Esthonians, 21 organized congregations and preaching stations, divided into the eastern and western districts. For the Icelanders, one synod, 10 pastors, 37 organized congregations, 3,785 communicant members. For the Poles, Bohemians, and Magyars, work is done by the various German synods, the late statistics of which are not at hand. Besides congregations in these languages, many understand German and are served by German pastors.