---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Lyman, Albert R.
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 22
number: 9
published: 1919-07
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Lyman, Albert R., "Thoughts," *Improvement Era* 22, no. 9 (July 1919): 820.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2209unse
  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: improvementera2209unse
start_page: 820
end_page: 820
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1919-07)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2209unse
  publication_year: 1919
  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 1919, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Thoughts

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822                        IMPROVEMENT ERA

of the priesthood would rise and the members voting would
raise their right hands, and then be quickly seated, so that the
business of voting might be done as expeditiously as possible.
Those wishing to vote in the negative, would vote in like manner.
      The order of voting was as follows:
      1.   First Presidency.
      2.Apostles.
      3.Patriarchs.
    4.  The Presidents of Stakes, their Counselors,     and High
Councilors.
      5.   High priests.
      6.   Seventies.
      7.   Elders.
      8.   Bishops and their Counselors.
      9.   The Lesser Priesthood (priests, teachers, deacons).
      10.  All members of the Church present.
       Practically the whole body of the hall was occupied completely by the priesthood, and the scene from the stand, as the
many thousands of men stood up, quorum by quorum, to vote,
their right  hands raised to the square, was the most impressive, stately and dignified religious solemnity that the eye of
man ever beheld, not to speak of the scene when the whole
audience, upwards of ten thousand in number, covenanted unanimously in like manner to sustain their chosen leaders.
     The following are the officers voted upon, and the introductory statement by President Heber J. Grant:
     We will now present to the congregation, the General Authorities of the Church, those holding the priesthood only. Inasmuch as there will be ten votes called, comprising the different orders of the priesthood, and the assembly as a whole, and it
will take so much time, only the General Authorities will be
presented at this conference:
    It was then proposed that we sustain:
    Heber J. Grant, as Prophet, Seer and Revelator and President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
    Anthon H. Lund, as First Couneslor in the First Presidency.
    Charles W. Penrose, as Second Counselor in the First Presidency.
       Rudger Clawson, as acting President of the Twelve Apostles.
       As members of the Council of Twelve Apostles:
       Rudger Clawson,
       Reed Smoot,
       George Albert Smith,
       George F. Richards,
       Orson F. Whitney,
       David O. McKay,
       Anthony W. Ivins,