Priesthood Quorums’ Table

IPRIESTHOOD quchCe -RUMS' TABLE © row Teaching for April According to the bulletin issued by the presiding bishop's office for the months of April, 1917, Bear Lake, Bighorn, Box Elder, Millard, North San- pete, Oneida, and Weber had 100 per cent of the families visited by the teachers in those stakes. Other stakes range as low as from 12, in Parowan, to as high as 99.8 in Ogden. The Ogden stake had 36 per cent of the priest- hood attending the weekly priesthood meetings; the next highest being Granite, with 30 per cent. The others ranged from as low as 4 per cent in Idaho, to 29 in Alberta. Reform in Dancing and Dress The Presiding Bishopric of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have recently sent the following communication to the ward bishops of the Church: Dear Brethren: Several months ago the General Boards of all the auxiliary organizations were requested by the First Presidency to give con- sideration to the matter of improvement in the dancing and dress of our young people. A committee representing all of the General Boards, after spending a long period of time in study and investigation of the subject, has rendered its report. This report has been approved by the First Pres- idency and all of the General Boards, and has been prepared for distribu- tion in the form of a small pocket pamphlet convenient for use and preser- vation. We are sending you under separate cover a number of copies of the pamphlet and the communication, estimated to be sufficient so that you may cause to be delivered to every officer and teacher, both male and female, of all priesthood quorums and all auxiliary organizations within your ward a copy of the pamphlet and to all women officers and teachers a copy of the communication on dress. If the number of copies sent to you should prove to be insufficient, you may obtain additional copies by writing to this office. We heartily approve and endorse the suggestions contained within the report so sent to you and we urge that you adopt the recommendations therein contained and give to the movement thus begun the whole-hearted support of all the forces at your command. Similar communications were sent from the First Presidency to the presidents of stakes, with instructions to distribute the pamphlets and cir- culars to the stake authorities, high councilors, presidencies of elders and seventies quorums, etc. The General Boards of all the auxiliary organiza- tions have also sent instructions accompanied by the pamphlets and circu- lar to their stake officers. The pocket pamphlet and the communication on dress were printed in the Improvement Era, Young Woman's Journal, Ju- venile Instructor, Relief Society Magazine, and Children's Friend for April. It is believed that a united effort on the part of all concerned will con- vince our young people of the propriety of the recommendations, and that their adoption will thus be made universal throughout the Church.