Priesthood Quorums’ Table

Priesthood Quorums' Table. Seventies' Year Book Postponed. — To the Presidents and Mem- bers oj the Quorums of Seventy: Dear Brethren— It becomes necessary to announce to you a postponement in issuing the Seventies' Fourth Year Book. The reason arises from two considerations: first, very many of the quorums will not have completed the Third Year Book, by the first of the year, and will have plenty of matter,both for private study and class work, for at least two or three months of the new year, 1911. The other reason for postponement is that Elder Roberts, who is preparing the Fourth Year Book, on The Atonement, informs the Council that it will be necessary to have more time to complete the work, as he desires not to mar the great theme of the Fourth Year Book— The Atonement— -by too much haste. The council agrees with him in these views, that is, that time enough should be allowed to complete the subject to his satisfaction. In view of these circumstances, it is decided not to issue the Fourth Year Book until the 1st of March, and we are urging upon each quorum to take steps to thoroughly complete the Third Year Book. Where the quorums will have completed the book by the first of the year, we suggest that they review what, in their judgment, would be the most important parts of the subject, and amplify their studies on those parts, until the Fourth Year Book is ready, about March 1, 1911. As many new members are being ordained into the quorums this fall and winter, we call the attention of the presidents to the necessity of having these new members, in each case, supplied with a complete set of the year books. No. 1 is very important, because it contains a divi- sion which treats of the Organization and Duties of the Seventy, also their place in the Church organization. The other four parts of the First Year Book give a survey and an analysis of all the scriptures which a seventy must be familiar with and use in his work. The Second Year Book is an outline History of the Dispensations of the Gospel, and the Third Year Book deals with the Conception of God Among all Nations and

182 IMPROVEMENT ERA. Races of Men; while the Fourth Year Book will treat of the great doc- trine of the Atonement. All seventies should be supplied with these books from first to last, and especially should all incoming elders be urged to obtain a complete set for their private study and reading, so that they may catch up with the back work of their quorums. It would also be greatly to the advantage of the First Council if subscriptions were taken in advance for the year book number 4, and we hereby urge the presidents to send in all such subscriptions, that we may avoid the unpleasantness and difficulty of sending out year books only to have many of them returned. Trusting that you will be prompt in attending to all these instructions, and in imparting this information to the members of your quorums by having this communication read to them in quorum meetings, and also reminding you of our seventy's slogan, which we trust is not being forgotten — "To become a Seventy means mental activity, intellectual development, and the attainment oj spiritual power." We remain your brethren in the gospel, Seymour B. Young, In behalf of the First Council of the Seventy. What a Teachers' Quorum Could Do.— The teachers' quorum in a ward should make itself popular. The power to make itself so is easily possessed by the twenty-four young men belonging if they will but work to that end. What is there that could stand against twenty-four young men in their teens, who resolve to be one in purpose, to do their part as real teachers, according to the order of Christ's Church? These results can be reached by them: 1. Meet once a week. 2. Study the duties of your calling. 3. Minister .in those duties. 4. Act in all ward privileges. 5. Bear testimony to truths learned in gatherings of the Church. 6. Prepare for future responsibilities. 7. Pride yourselves with the possession of a knowledge of God. 8. Cultivate faith and reliance in God. 9. Stand without reproach, and put to shame a denier of virtue. 10. Be inspired to save souls. Let us ask agkin, could not twenty-four young men, in any ward in Zion, so do? Could they not reap abundant pleasure and have the inward joy that would so popularize their lives and quorum, that others, seeing it, would say, "That crowd I wish to join; as they are, I wish to become?"— L. E. Eggbrtson, of the Ogden Stake High Council.