Emphasis Preaching Journal

It is the dream of every immigrant that in the new land to which s/he is headed, life will be easier than it was at home. It was said that the immigrants of the nineteenth century came to the United States because they had heard that the streets of America were paved with gold, and all one had to do was dig for it. But it was not so. The cities here were as dirty as in Europe, and the work was hard. Rents were not cheap, and several families would find themselves living in a single apartment.