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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 30, 1915)
News of the Churches and Religious Topics Directory. Baptist— Bethel—Twenty-ninth and T streets South Omaha. The Ilev. J. C. Brown, pastor, residence 467 South Thirty first street. Services, Morning, 11; evening, 7:30; Sunday School lp.m.; B. Y. P. B., 6:30 p. m.; praise service, 7:30 p. m. Mt. Moriah—TwentynSixth and Sew ard streets. The Rev. W. B. M. Scott, pastor. Services: Sunday School, 9:30 a. m.; preaching, 11 a. m. and 8 p. m.; B. Y. P. U. at 6 p. m. Zion — Twenty-sixth and Franklin (temporary location). The Rev. W. F. Botts, pastor; residence, 2522 (Jrant street. Telephone Webster 5838. Ser vices: Devotional hour, 10:30 a. m.; preaching, 11 a. m.; Sunday School, 1 to 2 p. m.; pastor’s Bible class, 2 to 3 p. m.; B. Y. P. U., 6:30 p. m.; choir devotion, 7:30 p. m.; preaching 8 p. m. Episcopal— Church of St. Philip the Deacon— Twenty-first near Paul street. The Rev. John Albert Williams, rector. Residence, 1119 North Twenty-first street. Telephone Webster 4243. Ser vices daily at 7 a, m. and 9 a. m. Fri days at 8 p. m. Sundays at 7:30 a. m., 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday School at 12:45 p. m. Methodist— Allen Chapel, A. M. E., 181 South Twenty-fifth street, South Omaha.— The Rev. Harry Shepherd, pastor. Residence, 181 South Twenty-fifth street. Services: Preaching, 11 a. m.; Sunday School, 1:30 p. m. Grove M. E.—Twenty-second and Seward streets. The Rev. G. G. Logan, pastor. Residence, 1628 North Twen ty-second street. Services: Sunday School at 10 a. m.; preaching at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m.; Epworth League, 6:30 p. m. St. John’s A. M. E.—Eighteenth and Webster streets. The Rev. W. T. Os borne, pastor. Residence, 613 North Eighteenth street. Telephone Doug las 5914. Services: Sunday, 11 a. m. and 8 p. m., preaching; 12 noon, class; 1:15 p. m., Sunday School; 7 p. m., Endeavor; Wednesday, 8 p. m„ pray er and class meetings. Everybody made welcome at all of these meet ings. OUR FOREIGN BORN CITIZENS. At a recent meeting of the Episco palian club of Massachusetts held in Boston, the special subject of discus sion was the foreign races, represent t ed in New England in such large numbers and variety, and the relation to them of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Addresses were made by the Bishop of New Hampshire, Dr. Par ker, and the Rev. Robert Keating Smith of Westfield, Mass. Bishop Parker said: "There are six Russian colonies in the state of New Hampshire, in most of which no English is spoken. And as far as I know the Episcopal Church of New Hampshire is the only body of any sort that, is really touching those men in a real fashion. “I have jotted down here the for eign population of Concord, N. H., which is called an essentially Ameri can city. There are 20,000 people, according to the last census, in Con cord—this American town. We have a group of people in a little suburb of Concord to the north, a place called Penacook. These people came to work in a cotton mill, and it could not be determined what they were un til pages from the various translations of the Bible were shown to them. When they came to the version of the New Testament in North Albanian they knew' it. So we have got a little , group of North Albanians in Concord. • “We have Greeks in Concord. There are probably Greeks in almost every town of New England. Personally I know a lot of these Greeks in Con cord. They shine my shoes. 1 know enough Greek to say ‘Good morning,’ and wish them ‘A merry Christmas,’ and I know enough to know their Greek Christmas is not our Christ mas. They give me Greek newspa pers, and 1 look a little bit learned and read out a few words. They really know that I am the friend of that little Greek colony. One of them sent me his picture from Albania when he was fighting there. "There is a little colony of excel lent Swedes in Concord—stone-cut ters. There are Italian fruit sellers. There is an Italian who keeps a res taurant and who has told me a good deal about his life. His daughter is in one of our church schools, and he represents a very fine little group of people from Northern Italy. The Frenoh-Canadians are such old friends and so much American citizens that really one hardly thinks of them as foreigners. Now, isn’t that doing pretty well for a particularly and es sentially American city of 20,000 peo ple? And Concord isn’t exceptional. ‘‘I omitted the last surprise I had. I was talking with my Greek friend while he was blacking my shoes, and he said: ‘We have got Turks here in Concord.’ ‘Turks!’ I said. ‘Oh, yes,’ he said. ‘They are reckoned as Greeks because they speak Greek somewhat, and they do not. get under the immigration laws about polyg amists if they are entered as Greeks. They are not polygamists, but they might have trouble if they called themselves Turks.’ “Now, how are we to go to work really to do anything with this prob lem? I think the first thing is to know something about it. One of the most illuminating books on this sub ject is the census of the state of Mas sachusetts, which gives town by town the nativity of the inhabitants. Then try to get some general knowledge of the classes of foreigners. There are, for example, three or four—1 might, make it five—large classes of foreign people. “There are the Latin races—the French and the French-Canadians, and the Portuguese and the Italians. You can not deal with those men as you are going to deal with the Orthodox people—the Syrians and the Russians and the Greeks and all the Slavic nations. "Then there are the Scandinavians and the Finns, people whom we might readily call Lutherans. You can not deal with them as you deal with lapsed Roman Catholic Italians. Then 1 might put in the Japanese and the Chinese and the Lithuanians, the Arabs and the gypsies. “If you really want to have an in telligent interest in the foreigners, you should take some one of these nationalities and know all about them. Supposing you took up Finland and read up everything that you could get on Finland and the Finns, so that you knew as no man in your com munity knew what the problems of the Finns in this country were. “Have any of you had any occasion to know anything about the Swedes? Go to the old St. Ansgarius’ church in the South End, and attend a serv ice there with Mr. Sundelof’s congre gation. Talk with Mr. Sundelof about his work, and And out who St. Ans garius was. "Lastly I would say, have some per sonal dealings with these people. Is there a Greek fruit seller in your neighborhood? Get to know him. And then, if you have a chance, take up some religious or some social work with them. These men are going to be voters, and their votes are going to count just as much in the com monwealth of Massachusetts as your vote counts. We are leaving the worst sort of Americans to train them in a sense of civic duties and civic responsibilities, for the most part, in stead of some of us who do have some sense of social and civic responsibility having some share In molding their ideals and in shaping their lives. By co-operation you can do some distinc tive religious work with them.” | Where Fear Lay. Evelyn is very cowardly, and her father decided to have a serious talk with his little daughter. “Father,” she said at the close of his lecture, “when you see a cow, ain’t you ’fraid?” “No, certainly not, Evelyn.” “When you see a bumblebee, ain’t you ’fraid?" “No!” with scorn. “Ain’t you ’fraid when it thun ders?” “Mo,” with laughter. “Oh, you silly, silly child!” “Papa,” said Evelyn, solemnly, "ain’t you ’fraid of nothing in the world but mamma?"—Short Stories. 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