Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-23
Christian Endeavor Hour
Conducted by Grace Livingston Hill-Lutz.

13. All that are born of the country
shall do these things after this manner
in Offering an offering made by hre OF
sweet SAVIOUR unto the Lord
IA. And if a stranger sojourn with you,
or whatsoever be among you in your gen
erations and will offer an offering made
by fire OF sweet SAVIOUR unto the Lord;
as we do, so he shall do.
10 One ordinance shall be both for you
Of the congregation and also for the
stranger that sojourneth with you. an
ordinance forever in your generations: as
We are, SO shall the stranger be before the
Lord.
16. One. law and one manner shall be
for you and for the stranger that So
journeth with YOU.
% Ye shall have one law for him that
sinneth through ignorance. both for him
that is born among the children of Israel
and for the stranger that Sojourneth
among them.
80. But the soul that doeth ought pre-
sumptously, whether he be born In the
land or a stranger. the same reproacheth
the Lord. and that soul shall be cut off
from among his people.
81 Because he hath despised the word
of the Lord and hath broken his COM
'nandment that soul shall utterly be cut
off; his iniquity shall be upon him.
The Lesson.
1t has been computed that every forty
seconds an immigrant enters New York.
Seven hundred and lightweight thousand
four hundred in a year! And think how
many of those must be children, Last
year there were nearly $1,000 more chill
dren to be placed in the public schools of
New York than the year before.
But New York is not the only gate
where immigrants may enter our coun-
try. There are thirty-four other stations
beside Ellis Island, and through these
other gates more than a million people
enter every year. Boston had at least
$1,000 immigrants last year and Balti-
more nearly as many. Then there
are New Bedford, Mass, Bangor, Me-.
Key West Fla, and several others on the
Atlantic coast. Then on the Pacific coast
are San Francisco Seattle and Portland.
Ihere are four thousand miles on the Ca
madam side of our country to be guarded
about three thousand on the Mexican
frontier, besides Porto Rico and Hawaii.
Even the trains, trolleyS, ferry boats and
lake boats have to be watched and guard
ed. for constantly there are thousands Of
immigrants trying to slip into our land
immigrants that would do US harm per
haps, for many of them are escaped
criminals or are suffering with terrible
thousand On one year of such immigrants
have been prevented from entering. There
are smugglers who try to get them in in
every way possible, often by way Of
Niagara Falls, hoping in the crowds Wis
iting there that they will not be noticed
sometimes they are hudded in sealed
freight cars and managed to be switched
OF here and there SO that they will not
be inspected, and in this way few will
slide in, but they are watched and gen.
"a fn6 IL
who try to climb up some other way or
TO get in when they have no right, would
not make very good American citizens.
Recently the inspectors have been very
Careful because in Denmark a great many
convictS were released from prison, and
1t was altogether likely that they would
attempt to get into America.
But of the many who are allowed to
/ land and to become American citizens we
are to think more especially. 1t seems as
If God has brought them to us to help
to save US the trouble of sending mission
aries away off over the waters to them.
They are just at our door, and in their
loneliness and strangness and need are
more easily to be won for Christ than il
their own country. Try to think how life
| is from their standpoint. In the first
| place, they have left their homes and
| ali with which they are familiar behind
them In many cases those homes were
| wretched novels, 1t is true and they
| have come out to America with the hope
, of lettering their condition, but the
| Strangeness and the uncertainty of 1t all
| must be terrible. The discomforts of the
voyage can scarcely be imagined by us
who have never tried being huddled to-
! gether in the ships hold without even a
| seat unless one is brought along, with
| poor food, and unkindness from the
ships company, and with storms and
| seasickness and wretchedness all about
| Then when they at last land on Ellis
! Island it is all so new and alarming!
| They do not understand what is said to
| them. There are signs up here and there
! in strange languages.
They are inspected by doctors and Of
| ficers until they are frightened half to
| death. They fear they may be deported
! for some cause or other, or some of the
! family may have to go hack because of a
| contagious disease of the eyes or be-
! cause of lack of money for self support
| II is a very terrible operation to them
surely to get In TO this new land and be
| allowed to stay. Sometimes they have to
! wait for hours for their eXami: alton or
| for their friends to come and pilot them
| to their new homes. Meantime there are
| beds provided where they may rest. and
good clean warm meals given them. But
| they have to be treated as if they were
| owned by this new country. They have
| even to show how much money they have
| before they can get in. They are home
sick and weary and sad. The children
are crying and all of them are worn
| out ana some are SICK Win their trouble.
| Then is the missionarys opportunity.
| There is a rniSsionary's room at Ellis
| Island. If you look in you can count
| twelve desks, so there are at least twelve
missionaries. There is a big wardrobe
| full of clothes. and a closet full of toys
| and dolls and boxes of candy. Also there
| are books and CHEEKY messages printed in
| twenty-siX different languages There are
/ Bibles and small gospels, and no one
I who can read leaves Ellis Island without
at least a gospel in his own language
| The missionaries are everywhere, espe-
| cially with those who have no friends
| to receive them. They help to comfort
| the sad ones who have lost some member
of the family by death during the trip
| over; they give little doll to some little
! girl who looks miserable and sad and
her face brightens; they open a five
pound box of candy and give a bit to
every one of the forlorn group of chill
dren huddled together for the long wait
till father comes to meet them. And
wherever they give these things there is
opportunity to give also the little tract
or gospel
The New York Bible Society has its
agents at Ellis Island. Two men a
Dane and Pole. land They have friends
at home who have given them enough
money to start comfortably in the new
land, but they are homesick, and when a
man steps up and offers the Dane a lit
tie book it is pleasant, for the man has
a smile on his face and seems to be
friendly. But he thinks to himself as he
opens it: II cannot read it," Just mag
ire his surprise when lie finds that it is
paHion looks disappointed. He cannot
| no iSh nd no