Our Work: Get More Manuals

OUR WORK, GET MORE MANUALS. Some of our M. I. A. missionaries report that in conducting the course of study provided for in the M. I. A. manual for 1898 there is a wonderful dearth of manuals. Many of the members of the associations have failed to supply themselves with this necessary text book for our work this year; for instance, it is said that in some cases in an enrolled membership of sixty or seventy members, and an attendance of thirty or forty or fifty, there will perhaps be only a dozen, or even less than a dozen, members who have manuals ! That is a deplorable, not to say ridiculous, condition. Men cannot work without tools, and members of the associations cannot perform the work outlined by the General Board for the associations this year without the manual. And when it is remembered that the price of that text book is but twenty-five cents, it is rather a reproach to our young men when they fail to supply themselves with it. The officers of the associations should take up this matter and urge our young men not only to purchase the manual but to study it. The price is within the reach of all and there is no reason why every member of the associations should not furnish himself with this necessary text book. To facilitate the matter of getting the manuals into the hands of the members, we remind the presidents and other officers of the fact that we are willing to send them any number of manuals that they think their association will purchase, but said officers must become responsible for the payment of the same. A large edition was published and we shall be able to supply orders promptly from the Era office. THE USE OP MISSIONARY ERAS. A number of requests have come to the Bra office from our missionary Elders abroad, asking that copies of the Era published prior to