Our Work: Y. M. M. I. A. Annual Conventions

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Y. M. M. I. A. ANNUAL CONVENTIONS. To Stake Superintendents, Assistants and Officers of the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations.

Dear Brethren. — The annual conventions of the Y. M. M. I. A. be held in August, September and October, 1905, on the officers will

dates named below: — August 13 Alberta. August 20—Taylor, St. John. — August 27 Alpine, Beaver, Emery, Juab, Malad, San Juan, San Luis, Snowflake. August 28 — Panguitch. September 3 — Box Elder, Cassia, Granite, Pocatello, Teton, Ban- nock, Jordan, Nebo, South Davis. — September 4 Kanab, Big Horn. — September 10 Morgan, Ensign, Salt Lake, Pioneer, Liberty, Star Valley, South Sanpete, Hyrum, Utah, Sevier, Cache, Woodruff, Mari- copa. September 11 — George. St.

September 17 —North Davis, Fremont, Bear Lake, North Sanpete, Summit, Wayne, Millard, Weber, St. Joseph. — September 19 Parowan. — September 24 Union, Uintah, Wasatch, Blackfoot, Oneida, Tooele, Bingham, Juarez. October 1 — Benson. Stake superintendents will please give special and immediate at- tention to the following items: 1st. Confer with the stake presidency —secure their co-operation and arrange for the conventions.

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2nd. See that your stake and ward organizations are all complete and your class teachers selected before the convention. 3rd. Notify all officers, class teachers, and others interested, by personal visit, if necessary, of the convention, and request them to be present. 4th. Secure suitable hall or halls for the convention, where both the Young Men's and Youug Ladies' officers may be accom- modated, without interfering with the Sunday Schools or the ward meetings. Consult with the Young Ladies' officers in regard to this. 5th. Have all Sunday School teachers who are Mutual Improve- ment officers or class teachers, excused from their Sunday School classes to attend the morning session of the convention. This has been pro- vided for by arrangement between the two Boards. 6th. Extend special invitation to the stake presidency, the high councilors, the bishops and their counselors, and all stake and ward officers to attend the convention meetings. 7th. Select competent persons to treat the subjects at the con- vention, and assign the topics to them in advance. 8th. Send copy of this circular to every officer without delay. 9th. Previous to the convention, hold at least one meeting of the stake superintendency, and convention speakers, and aids,

discuss the convention subjects thoroughly and perfect all arrange- ments. In making these arrangements, care should be taken not to inter- fere with the sessions of the Sunday Schools or regular ward meetings; so that some settlement should be selected where the meetings can be held in some building other than that in which the Sunday School and ward meetings are held. Thoroughly advertise your convention throughout your stake; have frequent notice given in all ward meetings, Sunday Schools and other gatherings, and-have notice published in your local newspaper, in addi- tion to individual notice, personal or by letter, to every Y. M. M. I. A. officer, including the class teachers. For the work of the Young Men's Associations, two meetings will be held, one at 10 a. m. and one at 2 p. m. In the evening, at the most convenient hour, a joint meeting will be held to which the public may be invited. No program need be prepared for the evening meeting, except one or two musical selections. The meetings will be conducted by the Stake Y. M. M. I. A. officers

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under the direction of the representative of the General Board, and the program will consist of the following:

Six "M's" for M. I. A. Membership. 4. Manuals— Class Work. a. How secure. a. How obtained and distrib- b. How retain. uted. c. How treat. b. How best used in classes. d. How interest. c. Teaching. e. How control. 5. Magazine. Missionary Work. a. Necessity. a. Necessity. b. Duty in regard to it. b. By whom done. c. 1903 Conference resolution. c. Methods of doing. d. Educational benefit. 3. Meetings. 6. Money. a. What are necessary, a. The General Fund. b. How popularize. b. Need and use of it. •

c. How conduct. c. Collection and remittance. d. How make effective. d. Accounts withGeneralOffice. e. Educational benefits.

At the morning meeting the first three subjects will be considered, and the second three at the afternoon meeting. Detailed instructions upon the above subjects will be found in previously published circulars, and in the Digest of Instructions, which all officers and members are advised to carefully review; but in giving this advice the committee desires it understood that the speakers to whom these topics are assigned should present their own ideas in ad- dition. A new edition of the Digest of Instructions will be issued, and all are expected to thoroughly familiarize themselves with its contents. The stake superintendents will select for each topic the most com- petent person in the stake to present the subject, and two other compe- tent persons in the stake to discuss it in all its bearings, after which a brief general discussion should be encouraged, at which all pertinent Questions will be considered. Great care should be exercised to select the persons most suitable to discuss these subjects. The General Board has approved and authorized these arrange- ments and instructions, and expects that the local officers will zealously carry them out. We trust that you will make every necessary sacrifice to accomplish the work, and that no excuse will be offered on the day of the convention, but that every requirement will be met, and this

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year's convention be the best ever held. It will require work on your part and that of your assistants to make this convention a grand suc- cess, but the good which will result will amply repay you for the effort,

and we pray that the Lord will bless you accordingly. Your brethren, George H. Brimhall. Edward H. Anderson, J. Golden Kimball,

Thomas Hull, Bryant S. Hinckley. Committee.

OFFICERS.

Joseph F. Smith, General Supt. Heber J. Grant, Assistant, B. H. Roberts, Thomas Hull, Secretary and Treasurer. Evan Stephens, Music Director. Horace S. Ensign, Asst. Music Director.

AIDS.

Francis M. Lyman, Jos. W. McMurrin,

John Henry Smith, Reed Smoot, Matthias F. Cowley, Briant S. Hinckley, J. Golden Kimball, Moses W. Taylor, Junius F. Wells, B. F. Grant, Milton H. Hardy, Henry S. Tanner, Rodney C. Badger, Hyrum M. Smith, George H. Brimhall, Wm. B-. Dougall, Edward H. Anderson, Jos. F. Smith, Jr., Douglas M. Todd, 0. C. Beebe, Thomas Hull, Lewis T. Cannon, Nephi L. Morris, Philip S. Maycock, Willard Done, Benj. Goddard, Le Roi C. Snow, Geo. A. Smith, Frank Y, Taylor, Thomas A. Clawson, Rudger Clawson, Louis A. Kelsch, Rulon S. Wells, Lyman R. Martineau.