Letter from Karl Gottfried Maeser, 1 July 1893
Provo City,
President Wilford Woodruff.
Dear Brother
Bro. Geo. Reynolds' letter of yesterday, enclosing Elder B. Cluff's
of the day previous, has been taken into careful consideration.
In connection with the subject in hand I enclose Bro. Cluff's
letter to me the wording of which seem to convey to me a some-
what different shade of meaning from the one contained
in the letter to you. While in the letter to you besides the
churchschool education in general, particular stress is
laid upon the normal training in the Brigham Young
Academy, in the letter to me the "advantages of the Acad-
emy" without quedifiation are only mentioned.
When we remember the special efforts which the First
Presidency is now making through circular letters to all the
Stakes of Zion in instructing them to send eligible young
people to Provo for normal training in Sunday School
Work, M. I. Asssociation Work, and having established
a Church Normal Training School, all in that institu-
tion, besides my own labors in these interests, and keep-
ing home missionaries for Sunday School and for M. I. A.
Work almost constantly among the people, and the host
of young people that are constantly issuing forth with much
