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Show 2 IF IAN MAIL comes in after each issue, and we are grateful for the kind words many of you write about how you enjoy the Newsletter. We only wish that everybody would do as some do - pass it on to friends who become regular readers sooner or later. And, . as our Lord said "Woe unto you when all men speak good of you" we are grateful for criticism and sometime even for abuse. A good Baptist preacher takes us to task for having "erected an altar and offered the Holy Sacrifice." He asks if we offer animal sacrifices to please our heathen Indians. A more friendly critic calls attention to what she calls anonymity. It seems we don't tell our readers who we are. Guilty! We are so accustomed to thinking of our readers as old friends, that we forget that every issue comes to some who had never heard of us before. So, perhaps it is in order to say that we are, as our cover usually states, a Mission of The Episcopal Church. We have as our spiritual chief pastor the Bishop, Dr. R. S. Watson, of Salt Lake City. Our real and personal property are held by a corporation known as THE SOUTHWEST INDIAN MISSION, Inc. under the laws of the State of New York, and its constitution guarantees the use of the property for mission work of our Church, so that even if our Baptist friend ·converted us to a non sacrificing form of religion, the property could not be alienated. JEAN HOEEFLER, as we announced in our last issue, was expected and the N ewsletter was hardly in the printer's hands when she arrived; at the moment she has her charges in hand and like all new teachers in Navaho land she is learning, fast, about Navahos as the children are learning the rudiments of our State's program of education. |