In many small, industrial communities where the "immigrants" are a problem, its solution is merely a question of the attitude of the churches towards them. Nothing can be more repellent than the attitude of the average Protestant Christian towards the immigrant of to-day. As a rule he is prejudiced, is grossly ignorant of the historic and religious background of the strangers and meets every one of them with suspicion. At a recent Summer School of the Y. M. C. A. it was my privilege to teach a class of young college men numbering about 150. They were studying this problem, and the questions asked, a few of which I quote, prove the assertion just made. "Do not three martyred presidents prove that the immigrant is an Anarchist and ought to be excluded?" "Is it not true that ninety per cent. of the criminals in the United States are foreign born?" "Do not foreign governments dump their rubbish of criminals and paupers upon our shores?" "Is the Constitution of the United States safe in the hands of people who crucified Jesus?" "Did not our forefathers come to fight for liberty, and do not these people come to despoil us?" The questions asked displayed such animosity and such ignorance, that to print them all would seem like slandering our Western colleges and the churches in which these young men were reared. The churches and the Y. M. C. A.'s have no small task in converting their membership to some Christian view-point of these, their neighbours; even if they cannot be converted to a spirit of brotherliness. The following instance, while not typical, shows the attitude of Y. M. C. A. memberships in many industrial communities, towards the immigrant. An Association in Pennsylvania wished to enlarge its building and solicited funds in the shops of its own community. Slav and Hungarian day labourers subscribed $2,000, every cent of which was paid; which cannot be said of all the money subscribed by Americans. Some of these foreigners were anxious to learn English, and one of the rooms in the building--not the best--was opened to them and a teacher procured. When one of these boys used some of the public conveniences in the building, the American membership notified the secretary that the "Hunkies" must not be admitted to the building; and they were not, in spite of the fact that they had helped pay for its erection. While no other such gross injustice has come to my knowledge, I know of many Y. M. C. A.'s in which an Armenian or Greek would be excluded from such a thoroughly religious privilege as taking a bath. Wherever a church or Y. M. C. A. has shown itself hospitable to the strangers it has had as many of their souls to keep as it has cared to have; but most of them prefer to save the foreigner by "absent treatment."