Records and Roll Books

RECORDS AND ROLL BOOKS. Elder Rudger Clawson said in a recent M. I. A. general conference "Anything that is worth doing is worth doing well, and anything that is worth doing well is worthy of being reported, and if it is worthy of being reported, it is worthy of preservation. I wish to emphasize that point. » In some associations, pains are taken to get a record, but after it is completed it is laid aside and lost. I would like to say a word in relation to the roll book. In many instances, the roll book is kept without dates of the meetings or even the year— that is a bad oversight, and should be corrected. I would like to emphasize the statement that in all cases," record books should be kept, and that they should be well bound so they can be preserved. The time may come when the historian will want to write up a general history of the Mutual Improvement organization, and will come to these records in the various stakes of Zion and in the various wards; and if the records are lost, or if the information is incomplete in the records, they will not be of much service." The General Board have prepared a minute book, on sale at the Era office, which is of great assistance to the secretaries in their work. Has your association one? It is well for the stake officers to look into the matter of rolls and records, and see that they are kept so that reports can be made on a moment's call.