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scheme for the revival of the labors among the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations. A letter embodying his views on the subject was sent to President Wilf ord Woodruff, and favorably con- sidered. As a result, there was a general revival inaugurated by a series of lectures given in the Salt Lake Tabernacle, under the auspices of the associations. These were later repeated in Ogden and Provo, and gave a new impetus to the cause of Mutual Improvement. Missionaries were called; the General Board was more fully organized, and weekly meetings held; the Manual was devised and issued by them, and the Improvement Era, of which Elder Roberts became the associate editor, was established in Octo- ber, 1897; the whole resulting in a wide-spread improvement among the young people. In 1898, Elder Roberts was elected, by the Democratic Party, representative from Utah in the Congress of the United States, He had before this engaged in politics, having served in the Legis- lature and also in the Constitutional Convention of the State of Utah, in which, as in all things to which he applies his mind, he took a leading part and an active interest. His writings are found in nearly every household of the Saints; the "Life of John Taylor," the "Gospel," "A New Witness for God," "Ecclesiastical History, "The Missouri Persecutions," and "Rise and Fall of Nauvoo," being his principal works. At the April, 1902, conference, he was sustained as one of the assistants of the Church Historian, and he has been engaged for a year past in the arduous task of editing "The History of the Church," a voluminous work, the first book of which will soon appear. Elder Roberts is a man of broad views and splendid oratorical ability, and is a deep thinker, a genial associate, and a leader, in- deed, among the people.

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

"Why Children arc Baptized When Ei8:ht Years Old. Why are children who are eight years of age, who have committed no sin, baptized, baptism being for the remission of sins?

The question as to whether children who are eight years of