Mutual Work

MUTUAL WORK. FOR MUTUAL OFFICERS. A circular of instructions in regard to the Fall Conventions of the Y. M.M.I. A. will be issued early in August. Until then, in making arrangements for theConventions, officers will follow the advice given in the circular of last year, found on pages 920-3, Vol.X,Era. The program and circular for this year will appear in the September number of the Era. The Reading Course for this season is announced in both the Senior and Junior manuals for the present season, which are now in print ready for distribution. The Reading Course books will also be named in the September number of the Era. This season's manuals for the special use of officers, the two bound in one book, in a limp-cloth binding, may be obtained from the Era office on receipt of price, 75 cents. This makes also a very valuable and instructive book both for members of our associations and the general reader, especially suitable for home reading. We request our officers to be loyal, and to order the manuals, as well as the reading course books, through the office of the General Secretary Y. M. M. I. A. Y. M. M. I. A. STATISTICS. It appears from the General Secretary's annual report presented to the Con- vention at the June conference that there are 628 associations with a permanent enrollment of 33,617 members. There are 22,217 active members; and in the 12,107 regular weekly meetings held there was an average attendance of 14,537, an increase of 2,143 over last year. There are 1,074 members away from home attending school, and 1,042 members on foreign missions, During the season, 685 public lectures were delivered, and 12,107 regular weekly meetings were held, with a total of all meetings of 23,094. The number of members who read any or all of the Reading Course books prescribed for last year is 1, 635, an increase of 885 over last year. The large number of 15,181 was given of men of mutual age who are not identified with the Y. M. M. I. A. NEW SUPERINTENDENTS. Edwin LeRoy Harrison was appointed and sustained as the Superintendent of the Y. M. M. I. A. of the Pocatello Stake of Zion, at a conference held at Rock- land, Oneida county, on the 20th day of June. In Provo, on July 12, Joseph A. Buttle was sustained as Superintendent of Utah Stake, with H. C. Jex, and Ray Maycock, counsellors.