Some Immigrant Neighbors

Chapter 2: FOREWORD

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About This Book

The author, writing from pastoral experience in New York City, offers a practical introduction to recent arrivals by defining terms, surveying motives and numbers, and profiling four major immigrant groups encountered in urban ministry. Chapters explore everyday life, cultural differences, and the roots of prejudice while presenting institutions and programs that aid assimilation and welfare. Emphasis falls on habits of neighborliness—education, companionship, and organized outreach—followed by discussions of helpful versus harmful responses from hosts and a closing appeal for civic responsibility and broader international understanding.

FOREWORD

This little book for Junior Home Mission Study classes has been written from the point of view of a New York City pastor. The races that have been selected for study are so chosen because the writer knows them at first hand through having labored among them in institutional and church work.

The book is an invitation to become acquainted with the immigrant and be his friend and good neighbor.

The thanks of the author are due the many writers whose works he has freely used, the members of his staff, and Miss Alice M. Guernsey for helpful suggestions, and the Rev. F. Mason North, D.D., for reading the manuscript and for valuable criticisms.

J. R. H.

Church of All Nations,
New York City, April, 1912