Editor’s Table: Best Thought Symposium

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gan to be known, it was at once pronounced a good thing, a proper thing to do, the missionaries would now be able to subscribe for the Era and in the magazine would have an efficient helper in their work; and at the same time — and this is important, since most of them are members of the improvement association — they would keep imbued and in touch with the spirit of mutual improvement work going on at home; and would be prepared to join right in that work when they returned home. But it was the purpose of the management of the Era to do something more than make it easy for the missionaries themselves to subscribe, it was decided to do very much towards sending the magazine to our brethren in the missionary field free; and therefore we invited all who desired to join us in this good work to do so. Such has been the response to that invitation that we are able to say now that we are sending to the elders in various missionary fields

SIX HUNDREDS COPIES OF THE ERA FREE FOR ONE YEAR. That is

what we are doing now, and we are confident that we shall do more than this in a few weeks. Six hundred copies of the Era free to missionaries ! But there is no reason why that should not be increased to one thousand, and we have faith to believe that our free list to the missionaries will be increased to that number before long. The magazine will be distributed in the several missions in proportion to the number of elders traveling in each.

Residents of Utah having relatives and friends living abroad should also remember that the Era can be mailed from this office to such parties at the same rates allowed missionaries.

BEST THOUGHT SYMPOSIUM.

In the February number of the Era, we desire to open a "Best Thought Symposium. " That is, we invite all who have promised to contribute to our pages, and all officers and members of the associations, to give us their very best thought in a few words, in no case to exceed one hundred words. The writers are requested to confine themselves strictly to one idea, to one thought, and to put that in clear, terse language. In