The hints concerning management thus far presuppose a Home Missionary Society organized on the modern basis of a programme of devotional exercises and various mission studies, and do not apply to those cases in which such exercises have been engrafted upon a sewing society with a long line of Dorcases as Presidents, and antecedents too respectable to be ruthlessly set aside. How shall a sewing society be so modified as to best subserve the present home missionary needs? Do not create friction by attempting a sudden and complete revolution. Propose that the brief devotional exercises with which such gatherings sometimes close be placed a little earlier than usual, that there may be time for some interesting missionary letter or some inspiring leaflet, or other selection, or better still, an original paper on some live topic. When about the usual season for beginning the missionary box arrives, prepare a symposium on the subject of boxes. Select and distribute brief paragraphs from the magazines concerning missionary debts, from missionary letters concerning unpaid salaries, and lead gradually up to the question 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. * * * * * 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