write_, that you have heard or can hear from them every month through
their letters sent to the officers at New York and that you learn of
the work through the A.M.A. magazine. Thank them for making this
monthly missionary letter so full and interesting.

"But that monthly letter is a copied letter," some one answers, "and
we wish our teacher to write to us, _to us alone, and in her own
hand_." Yes, it is a copied letter in order that it may be sent to
others who are interested in, and helping, the same work, and that the
missionaries' time may be given to the work about them instead of
being spent so largely in writing. But it is a fresh letter. It has
the latest monthly news and was written for you, and if not in the
same hand is as truly yours as a typewritten letter, which is the sort
most of us receive and give in the high-work pressure of now-a-days.

We provide _The American Missionary_, furnish our printed leaflets
freely, and will send the monthly missionary letters to all who desire
to hear thus from their contributions--as we hope all do--thus giving
the very best information that the field affords; but we most
earnestly hope the missionaries may be allowed their time for their
missionary duties pressing upon them. _The Missionary_ is the word
from your missionary. Read it, and if you do not like it, write us,
and we will try again next month.

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RECEIPTS FOR MARCH, 1888.

MAINE, $146.84.