p. 6 | A New “Industry”

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 3, 1910

A New “Industry”

In the National Geographic Magazine for December, Mr. A. H. Warner says that while visiting a village near Palermo, Italy, he asked what the chief industry was. “Agriculture and emigration to America,” was the reply. He adds:—

The answer would be equally true of all that part of Italy which lies south and east of Naples, including Sicily. It is this region . . . that for almost a score of years has been pouring its life-blood into the United States, until it has given us a population of some two million Italians, and brought it about that at least every eighth man, woman, or child in the city of New York is of that race.

This is the situation that emphasizes the importance of the work of our Foreign Department, which requires the co-operation of all our people and conferences in the effort to evangelize the people of foreign tongue whom Providence is allowing to come to our shores.