But where shall we look for the highest, the most complete and perfect revelation of God that the human mind is capable of grasping? Grant the truth there is in all the symbols which the imagination of men has produced. The earth is like the little ball you can hold in your hand. The solar system is like the revolving electric lights in the Museum of Natural History. The infinite and eternal energy is like the sun radiating light and heat and life upon the earth. He is like the flaming fire which consumes the evil and purifies the good. He is like the wind and like the ocean and like the most beautiful statue that art can produce. More than that. God is not only like all these symbols; He is in the symbols. God is in the solar system, the very life and soul of the universe. God is in the fire that consumes and purifies. God is in the flower and the bird and the beast.—Frank O. Hall.
(1529)
The immanence of God is illustrated in these lines from an unidentified source:
"Oh, where is the sea?" the fishes cried,
As they swam the crystal clearness through.
"We've heard from of old of the ocean's tide,
And we long to look on the waters blue.
The wise ones speak of an infinite sea,
Oh, who can tell us if such there be?"
The lark flew up in the morning bright,
And sung and balanced on sunny wings;
And this was its song: "I see the light,
I look on a world of beautiful things;
But flying and singing everywhere,
In vain I have searched to find the air."
(1530)
Immensity of Space Reveals God—See Converted by the Comet.
Immigrant Savings—See Prosperity as
an Advertisement.
IMMIGRATION
There is an ominous side to immigration, but there are alleviating facts. One of these was thus referred to by Bishop Warren of the Methodist Episcopal Church:
A while ago I was in a small country
village in New England. For the first time
in my life I looked upon a Methodist Episcopal
church, once filled with happy worshipers,
but now closed and abandoned. The population
of the entire township was declining,
and tho a few of the last remaining Methodists
had added their help to the older and
stronger Congregational church, even this
was looking into the future with fear and
trembling. Many of the native stock had
died or moved away, and "foreigners were
creeping in." I got a boy to guide me to
where one of these foreigners—a Finlander—lived.
It was a neatly painted
home, with a fine garden and an acre of
land, all paid for, and occupied by the Finn
and his son. All the foreigners in the village
were Finns and there were of them
just six men and four women. Of the
latter, two were wives of two of the men
and two were young women serving in
American families. And what sort of people
were they? One of the six men, I was
told, was a lay preacher and, as Sunday
services were a long way off and quite irregular,
this little homeless community of ten
dreaded and shunned immigrants were maintaining
a weekly prayer-meeting! (Text.)
(1531)
The total immigration to the United States for 1909 was 751,786. The net gain in foreign population was 718,433. The comparative immigration from the leading countries of the world for three years is shown in the following table:
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RACE OR PEOPLE | 1909 | 1908 | 1907
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Italians, North-South | 190,398 | 135,247 | 294,061
Polish | 77,565 | 68,105 | 138,033
German | 58,534 | 73,038 | 92,936
Hebrew | 57,551 | 103,387 | 149,182
English | 39,021 | 49,056 | 51,126
Scandinavian | 34,996 | 32,789 | 53,425
Irish | 31,185 | 36,427 | 38,706
Magyar | 28,704 | 24,378 | 60,071
Slovak | 22,586 | 16,170 | 42,041
Greek | 20,262 | 28,808 | 46,283
Croatian and Slovanian | 20,181 | 20,472 | 47,826
French | 19,423 | 12,881 | 9,392
Scotch | 16,446 | 17,014 | 20,516
Ruthenian | 15,808 | 12,361 | 24,081
Mexican | 15,591 | 5,682 | 91
Lithuanian | 15,254 | 13,720 | 25,884
Finnish | 11,687 | 6,746 | 14,860
Russian | 10,038 | 17,111 | 16,807
Japanese | 3,275 | 16,418 | 30,824
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The reader sees at once that more immigrants
came from Italy than from any other
country. In fact, the immigrants from Ger-
