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I. To Learn by Comparison the Magnitude of a Million Aliens.

1. At what rate per annum is our population now being increased by immigration?

2. What are the sources of this invasion? Its principal gateway?

3. What comparison helps you most to realize the number of immigrants?

4. What are some of the largest groups in the mass, as classified by nationality? By race? By knowledge or ignorance? By fitness for labor?

5. What states may be compared with last year's arrivals?

II. To Realise the Proportion of Our Population that has Immigrated since 1820.

6. How does the total number of our immigrants compare with the population of Germany? England? Canada?

7. Has the number of immigrants been increasing steadily? Will it tend to increase?

8. Has the present rate been long continued? What proportion of the population of the United States is derived from immigration subsequent to the American Revolution?

9. * Do you think there is any serious menace in such large numbers of immigrants? Why?

III. Why do Aliens Come?

10. Name the principal causes of immigration. The principal classes.

11. What American ideals have the greatest attractive power? What opportunities?

12. Give some typical instances of immigrants' stories. * Would you have wished to come under the same circumstances?

13. What other forces stimulate immigration to the United States? What agencies?

IV. What Should be our Attitude toward Aliens, and What is our Individual Responsibility for Them?

14. * What is the Christian attitude toward these newcomers? How can we remove prejudice?

15. * What is our personal responsibility as Christians in improving the condition of aliens?