Mutual Work

Church School Department School Convention. — During the first week in June, 1913, there will be a convention lasting one week, held of all school teachers. One of the leading purposes of the convention is to adopt text books for the Church schools for the coming season. It was at first intended to meet at the time the state teachers were to hold their convention, in November, but it was found that a lack of time would prevent the teachers from considering all the business they had to* attend to, and so the convention will be held in the early part of June, about the time of the M. I. A. annual convention. The Church Schools and the Missions. — The pictures herewith were taken last summer, at a great gathering of elders in conference at Rotterdam. Both the pictures represent the missionaries who were present at this conference who had been students of the Brigham Young University, Provo, and the Latter-day Saints' University, Salt Lake City. They tell a vital story of the work that the Church Schools are doing to prepare the young people for competent labors in the missionary field. These two pictures preach louder than words of the value of our Church school system in the development of the young people in this line, and it is only one line of many. As Dr. Brimhall has said: "These results represent the dividends from our investments in the schools." FORMER STUDENTS OF THE BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY, PROVO, Missionaries in the Swiss and German, and Netherlands-Belgium Missions. Taken at Rotterdam, July 7, 1912.

1X0 IMPROVEMENT ERA FORMER STUDENTS OF THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS' UNIVERSITY, Missionaries in the Netherlands-Belgium and Swiss and German Missions. Taken at Rotterdam, July 8, 1912. The missionary correspondence school, Edwin S. Sheets, principal, was instituted in January, 1912, and the enrollment began in the latter part of February. At present there are one hundred and fifty students enrolled from the following states: Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Oregon, California, Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Mexico, New Mexico, Colorado, and Canada. Four of the students are now in mission fields in the Northern States, in the Eastern States, and in the African mission. The students are delighted with the work. The purpose of the course is to prepare missionaries for their fields of labor, particularly those who have not had the advantage of attending Church schools. Supervising the Island Schools. — There is a movement on foot by the Church Board of Education to provide for better supervision of the Church Schools in New Zealand, Hawaii, and Samoa, in which countries the Church has a large number of small schools, taught principally by missionaries, free. Of this class of schools there are twenty-five in Samoa. It is intended to better the schools by supplying such missionaries from the normal classes in the home Church schools as will make first-class teachers for the children. Recently Elder John Johnson and family of Oneida Stake Academy went to New Zealand to take charge of the new academy built by the Latterday Saints there. Rodney C. Allred and wife will follow, and assist in taking charge of the school, which will open February next.