Coming Americans

FORWARD MISSION STUDY COURSES

EDITED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE'S MISSIONARY MOVEMENT

ALIENS

OR

AMERICANS

?

HOWARD B. GROSE

With Introduction
By Josiah Strong

NEW YORK: EATON & MAINS
CINCINNATI: JENNINGS & GRAHAM

UNGUARDED GATES

[Pg 3]

Wide open and unguarded stand our gates,

And through them presses a wild, motley throng—

Men from the Volga and the Tartar steppes,

Featureless figures of the Hoang-Ho,

Malayan, Scythian, Teuton, Celt, and Slav,

Flying the old world's poverty and scorn;

These bringing with them unknown gods and rites,

Those, tiger passions, here to stretch their claws.

In street and alley what strange tongues are these,

Accents of menace alien to our air,

Voices that once the Tower of Babel knew!

O Liberty, White Goddess! is it well

To leave the gates unguarded? On thy breast

Fold Sorrow's children, soothe the hurts of fate,

Lift the downtrodden, but with the hand of steel

Stay those who to thy sacred portals come

To waste the gifts of freedom. Have a care

Lest from thy brow the clustered stars be torn

And trampled in the dust. For so of old

The thronging Goth and Vandal trampled Rome.

And where the temples of the Cæsars stood

The lean wolf unmolested made her lair.

—Thomas Bailey Aldrich.

TO ONE
WHO CHERISHES AMERICAN
IDEALS, WHO HAS INCULCATED LOVE OF
COUNTRYIN HER CHILDREN, AND
SOUGHT TO INSPIRE IT IN
ALL—MY WIFE

Preface

Introduction, by Jos

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FORWARD MISSION STUDY COURSES

EDITED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE'S MISSIONARY MOVEMENT

ALIENS

OR

AMERICANS

?

HOWARD B. GROSE

With Introduction
By Josiah Strong

UNGUARDED GATES

TO ONE
WHO CHERISHES AMERICAN
IDEALS, WHO HAS INCULCATED LOVE OF
COUNTRYIN HER CHILDREN, AND
SOUGHT TO INSPIRE IT IN
ALL—MY WIFE

CONTENTS

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FORWARD MISSION STUDY COURSES

EDITED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE'S MISSIONARY MOVEMENT

ALIENS

OR

AMERICANS

?

HOWARD B. GROSE

With IntroductionBy Josiah Strong

UNGUARDED GATES

TO ONEWHO CHERISHES AMERICANIDEALS, WHO HAS INCULCATED LOVE OFCOUNTRYIN HER CHILDREN, ANDSOUGHT TO INSPIRE IT INALL—MY WIFE

CONTENTS

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With Introduction
By Josiah Strong

TO ONE
WHO CHERISHES AMERICAN
IDEALS, WHO HAS INCULCATED LOVE OF
COUNTRYIN HER CHILDREN, AND
SOUGHT TO INSPIRE IT IN
ALL—MY WIFE