--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 14 number: 12 published: 1911-10 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Priesthood Quorums’ Table," *Improvement Era* 14, no. 12 (October 1911): 1119–1120.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera14012unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera14012unse start_page: 1119 end_page: 1120 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1911-10) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera14012unse publication_year: 1911 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1911, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Priesthood Quorums’ Table EDITOR'S TABLE. 117 some five different languages are spoken. In Budapest, Brothers Hill, Spry and Parker labor, and must learn Hungarian, a very difficult language, since only few English-Hungarian books are to be had. Ger- man is spoken quite generally, and here in Brasso and other surrounding places besides German, the Roumanian, Hungarian, Gypsy and Saxon languages are spoken. There is a great work to be done with the Roumanians. We need missionaries to learn their language, for they need to have the gospel preached to them. We are being blessed in this con- ference, and are trying to show our appreciation by living the gospel and doing our duty." Elder John T. Barrett. Philadelphia, July 7, says: "The Saints and elders shown in the group had a very pleasant round trip down the Dela- ware river on a visit to the historic old Brandywine battle grounds near Wilmington, Delaware. The distance was about sixty-five miles, by water from Philadelphia. In the East Pennsylvania conference there are one hundred and forty-seven Saints, a choice class of people, full of faith in the gospel and true to their duties. Our elders are zealous, devo ed, faithful young men, equal to all the emergencies that arise; and each is so filled with love of the truth, so characteristic of the 'Mormon' elder, as to arouse within him a surprising amount of energy and force, a marvel to himself and us all. Give the elder a task and he arises to the occa- sion; teach him the correct principles of the gospel, and he soon learns to govern himself. To lead and persuade him is easy, when he is convers- ant with his duty, when the way is in the course of right. He is true to 1118 IMPROVEMENT ERA. his own reason and conviction. In June, thirteen elders in the conference sold 28 Books of Mormon, and two other standard works; smaller books, 365; tracts, 3,719; Liahonas, 486; visited 2,239 families; revisited 691; engaged in 618 gospel conversations at homes; spent 402 hours with the Saints; held 26 hall and 34 open-air meetings, besides other work. Eight new members were added to the Church in May. There are many sin- cere investigators. Eight elders in the country are traveling without purse or scrip, spending little if anything for food or beds, and what little they do spend is mostly for railroad fares and stationery. "The work is a grand pleasure to me and I enjoy every moment of my time.'' Elder W. A Lohan, of Company B, Linden, Wisconsin, with other elders, left Milwaukee on the 1st of June to prosecute their summer work. The elders in the pic- ture from left to right are: L. C. Caldwell, Vernal, Utah; D. E. Shocroft, La Jara, Colorado; John H. Buckmiller, Rexburg, Idaho; and W. A. Lohan, Salt Lake City, Utah. They travel in what they call "the ideal way,'' depending upon the Lord for all their needs. During the three weeks following their de- parture, they had some wonder- ful experiences, in which the blessings of the Lord were made manifest in all their efforts. They sold 55 Books of Mormon, and 195 other Church publications, dis- tributed 1,985 tracts, and held 30 open-air meetings and 10 hall meet- ings. The people receive them as the servants of God, and provide for all their wants. Sometimes after their street meetings they were com- pelled, by solicitations, to separate and go to different places to fill invi- tations. "We have learned that the only way to succeed in our labors is to let the Lord provide. We are aiming to put the Book of Mormon in every home, for we have learned that wherever a bock has been left and read we have gained a friend. Churches in different parts of the state have been opened to us, and we have had the chance of singing the songs of Zion to large congregations, also to teach our doctrines in dif- ferent Sunday schools. In Palmyra we taught a class of thirty adult members in the Methodist Church. The world is learning to know us as we are."