every day. There are
many who appreciate and long for a better and purer life for their
own people, and they are doing much to elevate the tone of society.
They are the leaven. They can transform the home life--to some extent
the old homes--but in much larger degree the new, in giving
intelligent parentage to the little ones of their own households.

In order to make the work so well begun tell most for the future, the
woman's skill is required in its every phase. The homes must have
their visitors, schools their teachers; pastors urgently call for the
special missionary. There are those who are willing to go. Will the
ladies of the churches provide the means? Will you Christian
women--the women of our churches, come to the aid of the American
Missionary Association, in support of your sisters in the field? If
you will do this, we shall have no more debt. If you will do this,
there will be far less of heart-aching denial to those who plead with
us year by year to send them just one--only one Christian woman to
guide and teach.

It costs but four hundred dollars a missionary. Yet of those who have
been appointed for the new year--some already at work, others now on
the way--there are one hundred whose support is not yet provided; and
only four hundred dollars a missionary! What a glow would enter the
hearts of these noble, self-denying woman, if from the Woman's Bureau
word might go that the ladies of such churches have provided for you,
and you, and you! Weary with the constant drain upon mind and heart,
as they come in contact with the warped, barren lives of the people
whom they would help, how it would refresh them to feel that because
they are your missionaries you are working for, thinking of and
praying for them. One hundred woman missionaries unprovided for!

At the word of the Lord we put out into the deep and let down the
nets. The draught is great, our nets are breaking, and we beckon unto
you, our partners in the other boat to come and help us--to share in
the work and the reward.

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RECEIPTS FOR OCTOBER, 1888.

MAINE. $261.51.

Alfred. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...12.92

Bingham. Cong. Ch. ...2.00

Brewer. M. Hardy 50 to const. MRS.
ADDIE B. GARDNER L.M., Mrs. C.S.
Hardy 30, to const. MRS. SARAH L.
WING, L.M. ...80.00

Bridgton. First Cong. Ch. and
Soc.