Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-03-29

immigrants are mostly people from
Catholic communities or Jews. Tho
Protestant Church is apt to question
whether it has any right to convert them
from their native religion. Yet it is
found that these people largely drop out
Of the influence of the Catholic Church
after coming TO America.
Many are so antagonistic to the GUS
toms and demands of the church in the
| home land that thoy become free-thinkers,
atheists and agnostics in this country,
and have nothing TO do with any church.
| Yet we are told that Protestant Mis-
sionaries in Italy say that they find eaEer
| supporters for the establishment OF
| Protestant Missions among the Italians
who have been To- America, even though
| they were not avowed Protestants while
here
Regarding the Jews, it is said that in
| the City of New York, where there are
more Jews than in any other place IN
the world, not more than one in eight
| is connected in any way with Jewish
| synagogue.
The majority of our new immigrants are
not favorably inclined TO any church.
| Yet we give them n voice IN our govern
ment to rule our nation. Shall we leave
| them alone? Would Jesus leave them
alone? They must be reached and the
Methodist Church, bv the Grace Of God,
can do it as efficiently as any other
| Church under the sun.
We do not recommend building them
churches where we already have church,
| but we do recommend that we MS God S
| children must take them in as our breth-
rem and give them our experience Of the
| living Christ For this we need n home
missionary worker at all Of our churches
where these people are located. Our
/ experience at Asbury has convinced
MS of this fact. With two missionaries in
| the field for twenty months we have a
| Sunday school separate from the regular
school with nm attendance Of seventy
| five, a kindergarten with an enrolment
/ of fifty, n daily vacation Bible school and
industrial classes of fifty Some of the
parents help To support the Church. Ter
Of these children over twelve years Of age
have been converted, most Of which have
already joined Asbury Church. One oi
these, a Polish girl fourteen years of age
has expressed desire TO be missionary
and is now teaching In our beginner
| department.
We have purchased the Boyd propert,
consisting of fourteen thousand squar'
feet of land and two dwellings. The cos
was $4,000, 81 900 of which has alread,
been paid. This land, which is adjacen
TO the Asbury property has been deede'
jointly To the trustees of Asbury Churcl
| and 10 the City Mission and Church Ex
tension Society. We will thus be enables
to do better work in this congested neigh
borhood where there is no place for tn
children except in a small room occupies
by six or eight persons or IN the publ
street flied with trucks, autos and wagons
We expect to convert the land in TO
playground for the little folks. who no,
in many cases are left by their mothers
who have to work for a living, TO row
the streets all day and sometimes neve
reach home alive. The two dwelling
which are now rented for ninety dollar
per month Will be used for the Goodwill
Industry, which we hope to put in opera
| tIon soon.
Our Sixth avenue mission, which is th
| oldest one we have, has done good wor
during the year with one hundred con
| stituents with an average attendance @
fiftv-five. There have been ninetee