. Reports of the missionary and benevolent boards and committees to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America . ave possessed the land. Company townand locations dot the hillsides. Fifty-six per cent of the ironore of the world now comes from these ranges. Nowhere inAmerica is the industrial situation more acute. For many yearsthe I. \y. W. and other radical labor organizations have been sys-tematically sowing among these miners the seeds of atheism, sedi-tion and class hatred. Into this vortex some of the ablest voung Presbyterian mis-sionaries have flung
. Reports of the missionary and benevolent boards and committees to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America . ave possessed the land. Company townand locations dot the hillsides. Fifty-six per cent of the ironore of the world now comes from these ranges. Nowhere inAmerica is the industrial situation more acute. For many yearsthe I. \y. W. and other radical labor organizations have been sys-tematically sowing among these miners the seeds of atheism, sedi-tion and class hatred. Into this vortex some of the ablest voung Presbyterian mis-sionaries have flung themselves—Rev. William J. Bell, Chester Earle Hamlin, Helen Crawley and others. They are fight-ing your fight and the countrys fight and the churchs fight againstthe forces of evil and suspicion and hatred which the radical propa-ganda has encouraged. They are building neighborhood are organizing chibs, schools and camps for children. Theyare conducting Christian Americanization classes for adults. Theyare carrying on this work in more than thirty centers among twentynationalities. VII. Mexican Church, El Paso, Texas. El Paso—The Gateway THIS is the Ellis Island of the South West. Hundreds ofthousands of Mexicans have crossed the International borderin recent years. Ask any of them where they entered theU. S. In nine cases out of 10 the answer will be El Paso. There is, of course, the question of first impressions. Who isgoing to meet the newcomer at the border? What of the manyinfluences in Americas complex life shall first and most power-fully impress him? Then behind that is the larger question: these alien neighborsof ours who have strayed over into our dooryard—can we assimi-late them. Americanize them, evangelize them, make them usefulcitizens? If we cant, what trouble are we storing up for ourselves! The Aiexican church in P^l Paso is furnishing an answer to bothquestions. Handicapped by an inadequate equipment, the able lead-ership of Mr.
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