--- 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: 25 number: 1 published: 1921-11 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Priesthood Course of Study for 1922," *Improvement Era* 25, no. 1 (November 1921): 86.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2501unse 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: improvementera2501unse start_page: 86 end_page: 86 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1921-11) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2501unse 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. --- # Priesthood Course of Study for 1922 Priesthood Course of Study for 1922 At a recent meeting of the Priesthood Committee the following books were adpoted as a study course for 1922: For the Melchizedek Priesthood and priests of the Church: Essentials in Church History, a book of some six or seven hundred pages by Joseph Fielding Smith, containing a history and doctrines of the Church. The price of the book will be as near as can now be stated, $1.50. For the teachers: The Life of Christ, a pamphlet which, as near as can now be stated, will cost 25c. For the deacons: Duty Stories from the Book of Mormon, a text that will cost, as near as can now be stated, 25c per copy. These books are all slated to be ready by the first of January so that they can be used at the beginning of the priesthood year. Orders for the Melchizedek Priesthood text books should be sent to the Deseret Book Com- pany, Salt Lake City, Utah; and for the teachers and deacons, to the Im- provement Era. Standard of Action for the Lesser Priesthood II A noted speaker recently discoursed on the great power of love. He was speaking upon the auxiliary organization slogan for the present year, "We stand for loyal citizenship*" and called attention to the fact that if we only love, loyalty will follow of itself. In speaking of love, he stated that all that he had loved in life he had loved because he could not help it. This latter part expresses much truth, because love, like faith, is a gift of God; but nevertheless, we can help ourselves to love through a sin- cere cultivation of those elements of which it consists, and so make our own lives and the lives of our friends happier. Calling attention again to the splendid analysis of love by Paul the Apostle, in First Corinthians 13, let us here consider two out of the nine of its elements as there presented. It is possible to cultivate these so that we may learn to love any worthy object, especially God and our fellow men. It is a fact that by becoming familiar with men, we learn to love them, particularly if we apply the elements of love in our association with them, and try to "Think and act a loving thought each day." Two of these elements are patience and kindness. Patience is shown in a person who is considerate of playmates, friends, parents, brothers, sisters, who is calm, uncomplaining, veady to serve, and in every action is cheerful, good-natured quiet, lenient, forbearing, and watchful. This element of love enables one to control oneself, to suffer long; it makes one willing and powerful to quietly wait for what is ex- pected, and to endure with fortitude wrongs or misfortunes; in short, it beareth, hopeth and believeth all things; for it understands and therefore waits. Kindness is active love. The Master spent much of his time while upon this earth in doing acts of kindness, making people happy; and doing good turns wherever he went. The Lord has likewise put into our power the ability to make people about us happy, through being kind to family, friends, neighbors, communities, states, and nations. Try to adopt pa- tience and kindness in all your dealings with people, and see how abund- antly love will develop in your own soul. It is not difficult to do; the act is rewarded immediately, and the world needs love, O so much! — A.