Reports of the missionary and benevolent boards and committees to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America . es Coal and iron mining communities present a somewhat differentproblem calling for a different method. Here the communities orlocations are small and scattered along a district, 30 miles in lengchin the case of the Mesaba Iron Range of Minnesota. The localself-sustaining churches are ordinarily limited in membership and Board oi Home Missions City and Immigrant Work 1918-1919 By Races Italian. .:?::? ?.??i 25,521 .::.,:?::..:?„ Polyglot ;, . |-24,
Reports of the missionary and benevolent boards and committees to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America . es Coal and iron mining communities present a somewhat differentproblem calling for a different method. Here the communities orlocations are small and scattered along a district, 30 miles in lengchin the case of the Mesaba Iron Range of Minnesota. The localself-sustaining churches are ordinarily limited in membership and Board oi Home Missions City and Immigrant Work 1918-1919 By Races Italian. .:?::? ?.??i 25,521 .::.,:?::..:?„ Polyglot ;, . |-24,652\ DoKerrnein > 15,620 OtKer SlavicJewisK ^^^Hia£>45. ^^M HuR^an arian . Synarvother JArmeniarI Persiarv •4J37 /2J50 Total #^87268 resources and seldom have any purposeful ministry as over againstthe immigrant workers. In such situations the Home Board hasbeen seeking to develop the Industrial Parish based on a federationof existing Presbyterian churches, the pastors together with layrepresentatives from the churches constituting a Parish Council. Acorps of extension workers, including foreign language pastors, are. THK YEAR IX REVIEW 41 placed on the field with a Director of Parish and Ivxtension Range Parish of Minnesota, the Gogebic Parish in the Synodof Wisconsin, the Iron River District Parish in Michigan, and theCherokee-Crawford Parish conducted by the Synod of Kansas andthe Home Board, are all being developed on this principle. Thesuccess of the Industrial Parish is largely contingent upon the de-gree in which democratic co-operation is secured from the localchurches and their pastors. Individualism is just as much en-trenched in churches in such outlying districts as in our older citycenters. On the Gogebic Range, where Rev. Chester I,. Harries isdirector, a new and inexpensive type of chapel and communitybuilding has just been erected at Ramsay through the generous in-terest of the Synodical Society of Michigan in memory of Th
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