. The redemption of the south end, a study in city evangelization. od to untimely and ghastly death. OnAmerican soil it arrays classes against one another. Can we notlearn that from the beginning this country has been the meet-ing place of the races? As early as 1644 we find eighteendifferent languages spoken on the streets of New York city—more in proportion to the population than now. When theAmerican Revolution broke out, one fifth of the people of thethirteen colonies could not speak English, and one half werenot of Anglo-Saxon extraction. These are the races that mingledtogether and produ
. The redemption of the south end, a study in city evangelization. od to untimely and ghastly death. OnAmerican soil it arrays classes against one another. Can we notlearn that from the beginning this country has been the meet-ing place of the races? As early as 1644 we find eighteendifferent languages spoken on the streets of New York city—more in proportion to the population than now. When theAmerican Revolution broke out, one fifth of the people of thethirteen colonies could not speak English, and one half werenot of Anglo-Saxon extraction. These are the races that mingledtogether and produced the old stock, so called, in our Americanstate. While names of Anglo-Saxon origin predominate amongthe old families, one cannot but be impressed by the largenumber of names with the flavor of other countries thanEngland. We make the mistake of acting as if we thought that onlyEnglish settled in this country in the early days. True as it isthat the major part came from England, it is equally true thatthere came from other countries no inconsiderable AMONG THE FOBEIGN-BOKN 79 Need we be reminded of the Dutch in New York, the Swedesin Delaware, the French Huguenots in the Carolinas, the Ger-mans in Pennsylvania, and the Scotch-Irish in various settle-ments of the country—just to mention the larger of theseelements from other parts of Europe that came to the Americancontinent? The fact is, that this has been from the very firstthe haven for the oppressed anywhere, the home of those whowould be free, wherever they may have been born. To read thenames of the men of eminence in the early days of the colonies,and in those times when the republic was being brought intobeing, is to cause to pass before us practically all of the leadingcountries of Europe. Morgan Memorial is but true to thebest American traditions when it interprets its charter as thatof an open field for work among the children of the Old Worldnow living on these shores. The important question in connect
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