Mutual Work: Helping to Get Fifteen Thousand

MUTUAL WORK. HELPING TO GET FIFTEEN THOUSAND. We are pleased to note that a number of the association officers have already secured five per cent of their Church poputation, and over, as subscribers for Vol. XI of the Improvement Era. The Heber City Second ward, Wasatch stake, President RoyalJ. Murdock, and Counselor Leo N. Richards, had already secured a ®er list of 51 subscriptions on September 27, which is Church population, and by Octob- 15 they had 72, or 15 per cent. In connection with this work they were doing effective missionary nearly eleven per cent of the labor, before the opening of the season. They had visited nearly every man who is of Mutual Im- provement age in their ward, and their efforts in this direction are certainly commendable, and a good example to other Mutual Improvement officers in the Church. Superi ntendent John royal j murdock. . T. Roberts "writes that | the leo N. Richards. satisfaction they received from their labors is worth all the effort they put forth, and they rejoice in the work accomplished ,not so much from the goodly number of subscribers they obtained, as in the fact that the Lord blessed them in meeting with the young men of their ward, and in feeling that the spirit of the gospel is still with the young men of Zion, and that they are willing to assist with their means the institutions of the Church. "President Murdock and Counselor Richards," says Superintendent Roberts, "have been connected with the Second ward Y. M. M. I. A. for two years past, and have been able to get five per cent of the ward population for the past two volumes but this did not satisfy them, and, as President Murdock expresses himself, 'Most people will not follow you up asking that they may subscribe; but if you will go after them and take their names, it is an easy matter to get subscribers.' I am

68 IMPROVEMENT ERA. not informed just what other wards of the stake are doing along this line, but feel confident that our share of the 15,000 will be forthcoming." Superintendent Preston D. Richards, of the Granite stake, reports that on Monday, October 14, all the wards in that stake had secured five per cent, as sub- scribers, and many of the wards more. In this connection, the second ward of Rexburg should also be named, as its officers had secured nearly five per cent as early as the 1st of October. What one ward and stake can do, all the others may. It is a matter of getting at it in the right way. From the encouraging reports received, we are confident volume XI will reach the 15,000 mark. Have you done your part?