Our Work: M. I. A. Mission Work

ment, and probably one of the most needed, is to teach our officers that public business should be discharged with the same promptness, integrity, and carefulness as private business.

M. I. A. MISSION WORK.

The missionary work to be carried on among the associations this winter was inaugurated by a number of the young missionaries called to that labor, on the evening of the second of December, at American Fork, Utah county, where public meetings of a very interesting character in the evenings of the remainder of that week, and the Sunday following, were held. Sunday the 5th also witnessed the work extended into the surrounding settlements— into Alpine, Lehi, and Pleasant Grove. In these places the work was continued until the middle of the week, when most of the brethren were sent out to new fields of labor. Elder Frank Y. Taylor went into Weber stake to take charge of the work in that county, where a number of elders had been sent to meet him and labor under his direction. Elder Edward Clyde of Heber City, Wasatch county, was appointed to take charge of the work in Juab and Millard stakes. Elder Charles A. Welch was appointed to direct the elders appointed to labor in Sanpete stake. And Elder Heber Jex, of Spanish Fork, was subsequently sent into Beaver county to take charge of the work there. While Elders G. A. Iverson, of Manti, and Charles Alleman, of Springville, remained in Utah county to carry on the work there under the direction of Elder Able J. Evans, who has been appointed to direct the movements of the elders who have been and who may hereafter be appointed to travel in Utah county. Since these brethren have gone to their respective fields, several of them have made reports of the most encouraging character, in which they say that large additions are being made to the associations where their work is being carried on. They also report that they are kindly received by the saints, who welcome them to their homes and assist them in their efforts to come in contact with those who, heretofore, have manifested but little interest in mutual improvement work. The local authorities of the wards are also taking an interest in the work of the M. I. Missionaries, and are granting them every opportunity to hold public meetings. On every hand the prospect seems bright for a united effort in awakening a renewed interest in the great work that the Mutual Improvement Associations have in hand; for everywhere the missionary brethren are being made welcome and assisted in their efforts to arouse our youth to a deeper sense of their opportunities, their great privileges, and grave responsibilities.