To Association Officers

ASSOCIATION OFFICERS.

This number closes the second volume of the Improvement Era. Every officer who has carefully read the past volume will agree with us that he has received full value for the price paid for the magazine. A glance at the table of contents accompanying the present number, will convince any reasonable reader of this fact. The letters of commenda- tion received almost daily are evidences that the Era is establishing itself in the love of the people. Every effort will be put forth to make the third volume merit the patronage and support of the young people of Zion. A reading of the prospectus will at once show that the promised articles are alone worth the price of subscription. But the Era has given more in the past two volumes than it promised. It will seek to continue this record in the future. We call your attention to the fact that the magazine is not a pri- vate enterprise. It belongs to you. It is the property of the young men. Every dollar that could be spared over and above the actual ex- pense of issue, has been used and will be used for the cause of mutual improvement. So we have sent the Era free to the missionaries. We

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have given you a manual each year free, and for volume three, these gifts will be continued. The manual, The Dispensation of the Fullness of Times, is ready for distribution with the first number, and is a volume, larger than former manuals, full of interest to every student of Church history. Now what do we ask of you as officers of the improvement associa- tions? We request that you subscribe promptly, this month, yourselves, and, further, that each of you secure one other subscriber. We request of Superintendents of Stakes that this matter be placed promptly before their officers, and that they first send their subscriptions each with one other subscriber who is not an officer. We request presidents of associations and their officers to send their subscriptions accompanied each with the name of one other subscriber who is not an officer; the subscription price, of course, to be enclosed. We feel perfectly free to ask this of the officers, because it is their magazine and their interests that are studied in the requirement made. When all the officers have thus come to the support of the Era, they may confidently go before the public, and their requests for subscribers from the people generally will be responded to with alacrity. The Superintendents of Stakes, and the Presidents of Associations will continue to act as the agents for the magazine, and we look to them for prompt action in this matter. Do not wait for some one else to move. Do your duty by subscribing now. Be the first to get to work, and get this matter off your hands.