n whether if we were missionaries we would rather receive a
box or a check for an unpaid salary. Which would best enable a minister
to look his creditors, who are also his parishioners, in the face--the
new pulpit suit or cash to pay off accumulated bills? In trying to
decide between box and salary, the society may decide for _both_, and a
point is gained. When box preparations begin, assign them a proper place
in the meeting. Do not permit papers and addresses to be sandwiched
between rolling quilt frames and turning down refractory hems, or
punctuated by requests or signals for scissors, thread, and bits of
gingham; and do not spoil garments by working with divided attention.
Give each its hour or its day. Best of all, when a box is in
preparation, sew early, late, and often, till it is despatched. Then
resume the studies, being especially careful to have their first
resumption provided with an attractive programme. In all cases when
studies have been grafted upon sewing, _encourage the graft_. It ought
to yield better fruit than the original stock.

It should be the constant aim of those in charge of local societies to
inspire in the membership intelligent interest in the six branches of
our work--to cultivate a spirit of liberality toward them all--to create
in every member a desire to aid them all. Only with such an aim can the
local society achieve its highest usefulness.

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RECEIPTS FOR JUNE, 1889.

MAINE, $123.20.

Augusta. Joel Spalding, to const. MISS
NETTIE R. SPALDING L.M. $30.00

Bangor. Central Ch. Sewing Circle, _for
Freight to Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 1.53

Bethel. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch. 5.00

Castine. "Rainbow Band,"
_for Tougaloo U._ 5.80

Castine. Trin. Cong. Sab. Sch. 5.00

Gorham. J.H. Hinckley, Papers and
Cards, _for Meridian, Miss._

Hiram. Mrs. Moore. S.S. Papers,
_for Meridian, Miss._

Limerick. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.00

Machias. Centre St. Cong. Ch. 7.87

Portland. Second Parish Chinese Class,
by H. Mabel Leach, Sec.,
_for Chinese M. in Cal._ 50.00

Rockland. "The King's Daughters," by
Mrs. D.P. Hatch, _for Woman's Work_ 10.00

NEW HAMPSHIRE, $1,169.97.

Brookline. Cong. Ch. 6.05

Concord. "Friend"