Excerpt from Through the Second Gate: Baptists in Action Among New Americans The Outer Gateway to America has swung wide and free and through it thirty million Of human folks have passed in the last one hundred years. Eager, expectant, from everywhere they came with high hopes and bright dreams. TO enter was Heaven. TO be turned back meant black despair. But this gate is an Iron Gate. It admits these newcomers to industrial America, to her mills and mines, her grind and grime, to her sub-american slums and her ugly foreign colonies. Mutterings and rumblings Of subterranean discontent and nu rest portend danger and menace to America. Back through this gate have turned millions, dis illusioned Of their bright dreams, bereft Of their high hopes, with enthusiasm and health left be hind ih what they had once spoken Of as the Promised Land. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.