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concerned. They have now modified the form of worship to 

 the extent that the celebrant wears a black Geneva gown in- 

 stead of the elaborate Greek vestments. 



The Baptist Church has also taken a hand in trying to 

 capture the immigrant. On Washington Square, south, in 

 New York City, they have near the Italian quarter a huge 

 phurch — the Judson Memorial Church — with a blazing electric 

 jcross, and services inside modelled in some fashion after 

 Catholic ones. In Tompkins Square, New York, and in Penn- 

 ,sylvania and Canada they have the strange anomaly, the 'Tnde- 

 ipendent Greek Baptist Church" with a liturgy and services bor- 

 rowed word for word from the Greek Catholic missal. The 

 Archbishop of Lemberg visiting among the Ruthenians in Can- 

 ada writes : "Among others, there is a Protestant catechism 

 published in Ruthenian to ensnare people. For example, it 

 admits the seven sacraments, the doctrine of the Holy Trinity, 

 the name of the Catholic Church and masks the heresies under 

 incomprehensible names. They have adopted the whole 

 Ruthenian Rite, even with those forms most repugnant to 

 Protestants, censers, holy water and the like." I have been 

 unable to visit other large cities and find out just what 

 chapels, services and the like are made to attract the immi- 

 grant under the guise of an imitation of Catholic services, but 

 I am told that they occur in every locality. 



Another somewhat subtler method of attracting the im- 

 migrant is practiced. The average immigrant from Eastern 

 and Southern Europe is usually highly gifted in music. Con- 

 sequently he loves his national songs, his peculiar music, and 

 everything musical, expressive of his nationality. In Poland 

 they have a lay vespers in the Polish language, and I have of- 

 ten heard the Psalms chanted in the cathedral by an enthusi- 

 astic congregation. In the Greek Ruthenian Catholic churches, 

 the congregation often sings the entire liturgical parts of the 

 Mass through by heart, changing with necessary antiphons and 

 troparia for the day. In the Italian Greek Catholic chapel in 

 New York I have heard the choir of girls and young boys, 

 whose native tongue is Italian and acquired tongue English, 

 sing the entire antiphons, troparia, responses and liturgy of the 

 Mass through in ancient Greek. None of our congregations 

 ever use the Latin of the Roman Mass in such a facile man- 

 ner. The immigrant, therefore, loves music, particularly the 



