mony with, and recognized as a practical
help in each ward?
Did you confer freely and fully with
the Presidency of your stake in superin-
tending the M.I.A. work last year?
Are you personally acquainted with
the education status and progress of
each Association in your stake?
Is there a general sentiment in your
stake for the officers to remain faithful
to their work until honorably released?
See CONTRIBUTOR, Vol. XI., page 471,
also enclosed questions with circular
letter of March 17th, 1891, and address,
CONTRIBUTOR, Vol. IX., pages 38-40.
It will be well for you to plan for hold-
ing your annual meeting for sustaining
officers in each ward as soon as possible;
but the regular weekly meetings should
be started up promptly, early in Septem-
ber by the present officers, who should
not wait for the annual meeting. At the
annual meeting it is desirable that the
Stake Superintendency should be pres-
ent. This meeting should be made
general in the ward, and the importance,
plan, and purpose of mutual improve-
ment work should be brought clearly
and forcibly before the people, and the
ward officers sustained by the vote of
the Saints. If for any cause changes
are to be made or vacancies filled they
should be attended to at this meeting.
In the selection of officers the ward
authorities should be fully conferred with
and great care taken to choose such
persons as are fitted for the positions by
popularity, ability, and inclination to do
the work required.
As will be seen from the Manual, special
instructions are given to the members,
and each class of officers for their general
guidance; to this your attention is directed.
As you are aware this great organiza-
tion is of such a character that its direct-
ing, teaching, training influence extends
to the home reading, or preparation of
the individual member around the fire-
side; thence to his regular weekly pro-
gressive lesson or exercise; thence to
the monthly joint session; thence to
the district and stake conferences, and
culminating in the general annual con-
ference in June each year. Thus making
the line of organized work practically
complete and progressive.
You are also cognizant of the special
importance of regular, systematic, pro-
gressive reading, thinking, and acting on
the part of the individual member; thus
permanently impressing and establishing
him in this universal system of educa-
tion, based upon revelation, self-culture,
and mutual or associative effort and
relation.
Education as you know is the develop-
ment and use of one's entire self. In
other words, the accumulation and
proper application of physical, spiritual,
intellectual and moral power; or, the de-
velopment of correct thought and its ex-
pression in righteous words and actions.
(See CONTRIBUTOR, Vol XI, page 351.)
Praying the Lord to preserve, direct,
and prosper you in your work of love,
we remain your fellow-laborers in the
cause of Mutual Improvement,
Wilford Woodruff,
,
.
mony with, and recognized as a practical
help in each ward?
Did you confer freely and fully with
the Presidency of your stake in superintending the M.I.A. work last year?
Are you personally acquainted with
the education status and progress of
each Association in your stake?
Is there a general sentiment in your
stake for the officers to remain faithful
to their work until honorably released?
See CONTRIBUTOR, Vol. XI., page 471,
also enclosed questions with circular
letter of March 17th, 1891, and address,
CONTRIBUTOR, Vol. IX., pages 38-40.
It will be well for you to plan for holding your annual meeting for sustaining
officers in each ward as soon as possible;
but the regular weekly meetings should
be started up promptly, early in September by the present officers, who should
not wait for the annual meeting. At the
annual meeting it is desirable that the
Stake Superintendency should be present. This meeting should be made
general in the ward, and the importance,
plan, and purpose of mutual improvement work should be brought clearly
and forcibly before the people, and the
ward officers sustained by the vote of
the Saints. If for any cause changes
are to be made or vacancies filled they
should be attended to at this meeting.
In the selection of officers the ward
authorities should be fully conferred with
and great care taken to choose such
persons as are fitted for the positions by
popularity, ability, and inclination to do
the work required.
As will be seen from the Manual, special
instructions are given to the members,
and each class of officers for their general
guidance; to this your attention is directed.
As you are aware this great organization is of such a character that its directing, teaching, training influence extends
to the home reading, or preparation of
the individual member around the fireside; thence to his regular weekly progressive lesson or exercise; thence to
the monthly joint session; thence to
the district and stake conferences, and
culminating in the general annual conference in June each year. Thus making
the line of organized work practically
complete and progressive.
You are also cognizant of the special
importance of regular, systematic, progressive reading, thinking, and acting on
the part of the individual member; thus
permanently impressing and establishing
him in this universal system of education, based upon revelation, self-culture,
and mutual or associative effort and
relation.
Education as you know is the development and use of one's entire self. In
other words, the accumulation and
proper application of physical, spiritual,
intellectual and moral power; or, the development of correct thought and its expression in righteous words and actions.
(See CONTRIBUTOR, Vol XI, page 351.)
Praying the Lord to preserve, direct,
and prosper you in your work of love,
we remain your fellow-laborers in the
cause of Mutual Improvement,
Wilford Woodruff,
,
.