Welcome Home
Improvement Era, vol. 24, no. 11, September 1921, p. 1031
Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
. EDITORS' TABLE , 1031 "I beg of you, my brethren and sisters, that from this time on, and particularly through this teacher-training work, we may turn our faces, not to gold, but to the God who has made this Church what it is, that it may the better prepare for the coming of the Master." In the Priesthood quorums, and in the Mutual Improvement Associations, let us take a definite and emphatic stand upon this subject of teacher-training. So shall we not only prepare teachers to teach the restored gospel and to preach it, but like- wise induce them, and those who are taught in the Priesthood quorums and other organizations, to practice its principles, and so come back to the fundamentals which have in the past made this Church the power that it is in the earth, and which will prove to be the safe ground work upon which to build in the future. — A. Welcome Home Elder George Albert Smith, of the Council of the Twelve, and his wife, Lucy Woodruff Smith have returned from the European mission, where Elder Smith has presided since the spring of 1919. Elder Junius F- Wells has also returned from acting as assistant editor of the Millennial Star for the same term. Both President Smith and Elder Wells are members of the General Board the Y. M. M. I. A., and Sister Smith is a member of the General Board of Y. L. M. I. A. We join with their thousands of friends in bidding them a hearty welcome home. Elder Orson F. Whitney entered upon his duties as President of the European mission on July 1, and Elder Wil- liam A- Morton on that date, took the place of Elder Junius F. Wells as assistant editor of the Millennial Star. Elders Smith and Wells gave a review of their missionary labors, in Great Britain and Europe, at the regular meeting in the Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, on Sunday, August 14, their interesting remarks being printed in full in the Deseret News, Saturday, August 20, from which it appears that the mission has prospered, notwithstand- ing the turmoil that has necessarily followed the reconstruction after the great war. The Era gladly greets the brethren and Sister Smith and is delighted to anticipate their active services in the improvement association work, as well as in the great cause of the Church for which we are all laboring. Elder Wells was appointed assistant Church Historian at the last semi-an- nual Conference, and he will take up his labors in that office. Elder Smith has already visited several stakes in the interest of Church affairs and has been busy and active ever since his arrival.