---
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: 19
number: 10
published: 1916-08
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* 19, no. 10 (August 1916): 946.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera19010unse
  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: improvementera19010unse
start_page: 946
end_page: 946
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1916-08)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera19010unse
  publication_year: 1916
  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 1916, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Priesthood Quorums’ Table

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              HELPS FOR INSTRUCTORS OF DEACONS
                             by p. joseph jensen

                                   Lesson 22

     Aim: To get the boys to be tolerant, to respect the beliefs and
rights of others.
     Call attention to folly of the very common practice of "falling in"
with a certain "crowd," and then joining to oppose the other "crowd,"
by that means developing a dislike for others. Also, because we live in
a certain town or part of a town, we insist sometimes in doing cer-
tain things and become blind to what others like to do.    Maybe they
are as good as we are, and their habits and customs even superior to
ours.
      How  shall we educate ourselves to respect others as we would
like them to respect us?
     Without giving any names, are there boys that you do not like?
Are there others, you do like? What. makes the difference? Now, John
Taylor was one of the presidents of our Church. Let us see how he
felt towards the people of other churches.
     Study the lesson.
     What does he say the Lord did for the people of other churches?
What did he say he would do for them?
     Compare the way President Taylor felt towards other people
with the way Paul the apostle felt towards the Greeks and other na-
tions (Acts 17:22-31).     Whose teachings did President Taylor and
the Apostle Paul believe in?
     Answer the questions of the lesson.
                                   Lesson 23

      Aim: To aid the boys to understand how one acts when working
tinder thepower and influence of the Holy Spirit.
    What does a person do when prompted by the Holy Spirit? Do
all the boys understand when they are entitled to act under the
promptings of the Holy Ghost.
    When correct answers to the above questions have been given
and commended, read or study lesson 23 with the following request:
Note carefully what Elder David W. Patten did when he acted under
the   influence   of the   Holy   Spirit.
      How long did the Holy Spirit strive with him before he joined
the Church? When he became a member of the Church, what did he
do for other people? When a mob attacked the Latter-day Saints,
what did he do for his friends?
    Comoare what Elder Patten did for his friends with what Joseph
Smith, Hyrum Smith, and John Taylor did. Also what Stephen did
(Acts   7).
      Answer the question of the lesson.