--- 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: 24 number: 11 published: 1921-09 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Welcome Home," *Improvement Era* 24, no. 11 (September 1921): 1031–1031.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera24011unse 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: improvementera24011unse start_page: 1031 end_page: 1031 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1921-09) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera24011unse publication_year: 1921 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 1921, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Welcome Home . 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.