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WHAT HAS BEEN DONE FOR THESE
PEOPLE AND THEIR NEIGHBORS
NOW IN AMERICA?
A SYMPOSIUM
REV. JESSE AV. BROOKS, PH. D.
Superintendent of the Chicago Tract Society, presiding
FOR ten years before the beginning of this present war the
immigration to our country averaged about a million a year.
Of the ten million people who came during the ten years,
seventy per cent were from eastern and southeastern Europe. No such
peaceful invasion of alien people was ever known in the history of any
country before. Chicago has been both a "nerve-center" and a
"storm-center" for this alien population, and we are just now begin-
ning to understand what, in the providence of God, it all means.
Foreign Mission Work in America
You will all notice that this particular part of our program is sug-
gested in connection with the work of the Chicago Tract Society.
There are two reasons why I want to say a few words about the work
of that society. In the first place, while here in the heart of America,
it has always been essentially -foreign mission work, almost all of it
being done among foreign-speaking people. The first secretary of the
society, Rev. Dr. Elwood M. Wherry, was, and is still, a well known
foreign missionary of India. Twenty-nine years ago he was in this
country on furlough, and was necessarily detained here for several
years, on account of the education of his children. It was then, with
the instinct and impulse of the foreign missionary, seeking how he
might continue his life program which seemed to be interrupted, that,
with the help of leading representatives of the Chicago churches, he
effected the organization of this society. It was, at the very first,
and has been ever since, essentially in spirit a foreign mission work;
and at the present time there is under the direction of the society a
corps of missionaries who are actually speaking in the aggregate
twenty-six languages and who are circulating the Gospel through the
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