. Home Missionary, The (April 1905-March 1906) . ry kind ofprodigal who has wasted his sub-stance,—if he ever had any,—in theriotous poverty of some far country. Through her streets pours a tidewhich never ebbs. Into her by-ways swirl eddies of human a point of divergence forthe mighty streams of humanitywhich flow westward across the con-tinent, still, week after week, andoften every day in the week, theshores of the stream catch and holdmany thousands who remain to swellthe citys plethoric sides. Gatheredfrom all nations of Europe, like thetributaries of a mighty stream, theyb
. Home Missionary, The (April 1905-March 1906) . ry kind ofprodigal who has wasted his sub-stance,—if he ever had any,—in theriotous poverty of some far country. Through her streets pours a tidewhich never ebbs. Into her by-ways swirl eddies of human a point of divergence forthe mighty streams of humanitywhich flow westward across the con-tinent, still, week after week, andoften every day in the week, theshores of the stream catch and holdmany thousands who remain to swellthe citys plethoric sides. Gatheredfrom all nations of Europe, like thetributaries of a mighty stream, theybecome united and centralized here only to diverge again, sooner or later,across the nation, or, in a few cases,to return to their native land to this tide rolling in fromEllis Island for a day and what isthe result? A town of twelve thou-sand inhabitants. For a year, andyou have a metropolis of 1,250,000souls carving out a destiny, perhaps,of prosperity and wealth. Thatprosperity is simply the are without our REV. FRED HOVEV ALLEN w ^ -.*;* --, ? Their city would be modes of speech would findexpression there, and without a sin-gle instinct or a principle which isAmerican. From every throne ofEurope where, for ages, men havegilded, kissed or cursed their hered-itary bondage, come these heteroge-neous millions, attracted by twowords, liberty and money. Theyrepresent a despotism which has heldits foot upon the necks of men untilseemingly every vestige of manhoodis trodden out. They are men uponwhose lives are written ignorance,bigotry and the foulest passions ofthe human heart, but they are have caught a breath of free-dom, and with unwisdom construeit into license, and shame to the na-tion and its manhood is written uponfadeless records. Others still, break-ing the fetters of old-world bondage,with clear eyes and hearts of hope,offer to the state a man and woman-hood to which the noblest civiliza-tion might give
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