Our Work: Annual Y. L. and Y. M. M. I. A. Conference

OUR WORK. ANNUAL Y. L. AND Y. M. M. I. A. CONFERENCE. The General Annual Conference of the Young Men's and Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Associations of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, will be held in Salt Lake City, on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, June 7, 8 and 9, 1907. The Young Men's officers' meetings, or business meetings, will be held at Barratt Hall, beginning Friday at 10 a. m., no meetings afternoon and evening, and continuing Saturday at 10 a. m., and 2 p. m. The Young Ladies will meet at a place to be designated hereafter Conjoint officers' meeting will be held on Sunday morning, June 9, at 10 o'clock in the Assembly Hall, and general con- joint public meetings in the Tabernacle at 2 and 7 o'clock p. m. that day. Friday afternoon and evening will be devoted to entertainmjnt at Wanda- mere, admission being by tickets which will be distributed by the officers. All officers and members of the associations are requested Jto be present at all the meetings, and a cordial invitation is extended to all the Saints to attend the Tabernacle meetings. They will also be made welcome at the business meetings. Joseph F, Smith, General Saperintendent Y. M. M. L A. Martha H. Tingey, Edward H. Anderson, President Y. L. M. I. A. Secretary Y. M. M. I. A. Ann M. Cannon, Secretary Y. L. M. I. A. CONFERENCE COMMITTEES. The following committees were appointed by the General Boards for the Gen- eral Annual M. L A. Conference, June 7, 8 and 9, 1907: On program for the conjoint tabernacle officers' meetings— Junius F. Wells, Thomas Hull, L. R. Martineau, Hyrum M. Smith, May Booth Talmage, Estelia N. Caldwell, Augusta W. Grant, Elen Wallace. On program for separate M. I. A. officers' meetings—B. S. Hinckley, D. M. Todd, Willard Done, James H. Anderson, and Edward H. Anderson. On entertainment— B. F. Grant, Rodney C. Badger, Louis A. Kelsch, Lewis T. Cannon, Joan Campbell, E. W. Eardley, Mae Nystr^m, Mattie Reed. A committee on excursion-F. Y. Taylor. H. S. Tanner, Moses W. Taylor, B. S. Hinckley, Ann M. Cannon, Emily Adams, Rose Bennett, Elizabeth McCune. Anderson, A committee on transportation-B. F. Grant, Thomas Hull, E. H. Aggie Campbell.

554 IMPROVEMENT ERA. The board requests that active work be done by all the members of these com- mittees. Superintendents of stakes and ward presidents of associations are re- quested to advertise the conference and provide for a large representation, and. set to work immediately and energetically to perform their part of the labor. A WORD AT PARTING. Young man, you are leaving our associations today, and, perhaps, your home. You are going out into the world to work. It is important that you should earn a living, and make money, but that is not the end; neither are the essential things, the fountain springs of your life, in these. We are often mistaken in our estimates of value. The things we struggle for most earnestly are frequently of least value. Seek you, therefore, also the treasures, and the riches that remain, the forces that are permanent. The word of the Lord abideth forever; and sa does yoursoul. You should, therefore, devote your days to doing God's will, and to developing withia your own soul the eternal qualities that abide, the character that remains forever. The things that pay today may be but poor recompense for the future, measured by the rewards that endure. Remember the revelations that you hare studied. Ir, them lie the truths that, wrought into conduct in your life, make for eternal riches. Take section 89 as your physical creed. Lift up your hearts and rejoice, and take upon you the armor of the Lord, that you may be able to withstand evil. Gird yourself about with truth, put on righteousness as a breastplate; shoo your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace, and with the shield of faith stay the fiery darts of the wicked. Take your ideals from section 59, and transmute these and other command- ments into your conduct and character. Then, quoting Dr. Hillis: "Build for yourself a chamber of peace, and let the world thunder on with its din and dust. Publish in silence the glory of long suffering, the beauty of gentleness, and ihe might of brotherly kindness. Let the love of God strike your soul through and through as ripeness dwells in the fruit and warmth in the sunbeam. These are the ideal qualities of the soul, the invisible things of God that shall in comparison bring to utter nothingness those transient things of matter that dissolve like smoke and mist before the rising sun." CHICAGO M. 1. A. The Mutual Improvement Associations of Chicago held a conjoint session on Sunday, March 3. Elder G. N. Curtis writes: "Besdes the regular program, we were highly favored with a visit from President George H. Brimhall and Prof. J. L. Brown, of the Brigham Young Academy, and Superintendent Horace Cummings. We made arrangements to have them address us on the date mentioned. The meeting was well advertised, and we had the auditorium of our church well filled. The above named brethren addressed us, and we certainly had a spiritul feast. The brethren expressed themselves as being very well pleased with the excellent work being done by the mutuals and complimented and commended us for the en- thusiasm and zeal manifest by the members of the association.