44 8 Presidential Addresses 



that we should be peculiarly watchful over them, 

 because of our own history, because we or our 

 fathers came here under like conditions. Now 

 that we have established ourselves let us see to 

 it that we stretch out the hand of help, the hand of 

 brotherhood, toward the new-comers, and help them 

 as speedily as possible to get into such relations that 

 it will be easy for them to walk well in the new life. 

 We are not to be excused if we selfishly sit down 

 and enjoy gifts that have been given to us and do 

 not try to share them with our poorer fellows com- 

 ing from every part of the world, who many of 

 them stand in such need of the helping hand; who 

 often not only meet too many people anxious to 

 associate with them for their detriment, but often 

 too few anxious to associate with them for their 

 good. 



I trust that with the consecration of each new 

 church of the Reformed creed in this our country 

 there will be established a fresh centre of effort to 

 get at and to help for their good the people that 

 yearly come from over seas to us. No more im- 

 portant work can be done by our people; important 

 to the cause of Christianity, important to the cause 

 of true national life and greatness here in our own 

 land. 



Another thing: let us so far as strength is given 

 us make it evident to those who look on and who 

 are not of us that our faith is not one of words 

 merely; that it finds expression in deeds. One sad, 

 one lamentable phase of human history is that the 



