Letter from Karl Gottfried Maeser, 26 May 1891
Provo City,
President Wilford Woodruff.
Dear Brother,
In as much as the time for our Annual Church School
Convention is near at hand, it becomes my duty to submit
to you a few suggestions for your consideration to instruct
members of the General Board present at the occasion to bring
what extent they might bring before the Convention any
or all of them, or other points of importance which you
may desire to have them speak upon.
1. It has been noticed with regret that several Church
Schools have not yet made arrangements that the copies of the
Juvenile Instructor, containing the "Church School Papers",
are kept on file for reference, in consequence of which omis-
sion many of our Church School Teachers are kept in ignorance
of this content.
2. As the Religion-Classes are an appendage to our
Church School Organization, and as such are under
the control of the respective Stake Boards of Educa-
tion, and the Principal of the Stake Academy, whereas
practicable, should act as Stake Superintendent over
these classes, but the majority of our Religion-Class-
Instructors are not professional teachers, all our
