ye, therefore, worthy of your holy call-
ing. Trust in the Lord of Hosts, give
your hearts to God, and fail not in your
mission of Improvement. Be watchful,
prayerful, obedient; for the eyes of
heavenly hosts are upon you. Honor
your parents, that your days may be
many. Venerate those grown gray in
the service of the God of heaven and
earth, and the ordinances of the Gospel
shall be your portion, the salvation of
God your part, and the Holy Priesthood
with the powers thereof your inherit-
ance. A great work is before you.
Thrust in your sickles and reap, for the
harvest is ripe, though laborers are few.
Be not satisfied, rest not content until
every young man professing the name of
Saint in Zion is enrolled in the cause of
Mutual Improvement.

Civilization, so called, with a tide of
evil and corrupting influences is sweep-
ing the land with temptations calculated
to lead the young into paths of vice and
destruction. These must be resisted
and overcome, because at war with peace
and purity. Be ye lovers of men rather
than lovers of pleasure. Using wisely
the gifts and graces with which the Al-
mighty has endowed you, rescue from
the allurements of saloons, beer halls
and other haunts of vice, those whom
God has designed should move on a
higher and purer moral plane.

Human redemption, from the effects
of the fall, is the grandest work in which
God and man can be engaged. Those
who would be successfully employed in
it must secure the testimony of the Holy
Spirit, make virtue the jewel of the soul,
purity of thought the guide of the heart,
and honor, integrity and truth com-
panions of daily life.

Conforming your exercises to the or-
ganizations of the Church, let all your
teachings harmonize therewith; so shall
all your works, under the proper use of
the Priesthood which you bear, be
sanctified to the honor and glory of God.
The general authorities of the Church
and those of the Wards and Stakes
throughout Zion will give you encourage-
ment and help whenever and wherever
needed.

Half-yearly conferences of the various
Young Men's Mutual Improvement As-
sociations may be held in the Stakes
throughout Zion at such times and places
as may be determined by the Stake
Presidency and Superintendency of the
Associations. These conferences may
occupy two days, including one Sunday,
and should be made occasions for re-
ceiving reports and giving mutual in-
structions that will tend to harmonize the
manner of conducting the Associations
and achieving the most satisfactory re-
sults.

A general conference of the Associa-
tions will be held about the first of June,
1888, and annually thereafter, the exact
date and place to be hereafter named by
the General Superintendency. The
Associations should endeavor to con-
tinue their regular weekly meetings
until about the time of the Annual Con-
ference, before taking their summer va-
cation. At the general conference statis-
tical and other necessary reports will be
required and time given for the consid-
eration of the best means and methods of
promoting the education and welfare of
the young men and women of Zion.

The Primary and Sunday School
organizations, Mutual Improvement Asso-
ciations, and Relief Societies have been
instituted for a wise purpose. They are
"helps and governments" calculated in
their nature and design to accomplish
much good among Saints. Each has
a special field of usefulness not occupied
by the others, and no man in this Church,
filled with the Holy Ghost, will lay a
straw in the way of either of them.
Neither will he find occasion for manifes-
tations of petty jealousies, by which to
foster one at the expense of another.

The Sunday Schools have gradually
and almost universally come to occupy
the forenoon of each Sabbath. Have
the interests of God's Church or the
welfare of His people suffered thereby?
Certainly not. What, indeed, is of more
vital importance to us than the proper
religious training of our children? What
the Primary Associations begin, let the
Sunday Schools and Mutual Improve-
ment Associations continue. Each has

ye, therefore, worthy of your holy calling. Trust in the Lord of Hosts, give your hearts to God, and fail not in your mission of Improvement. Be watchful, prayerful, obedient; for the eyes of heavenly hosts are upon you. Honor your parents, that your days may be many. Venerate those grown gray in the service of the God of heaven and earth, and the ordinances of the Gospel shall be your portion, the salvation of God your part, and the Holy Priesthood with the powers thereof your inheritance. A great work is before you. Thrust in your sickles and reap, for the harvest is ripe, though laborers are few. Be not satisfied, rest not content until every young man professing the name of Saint in Zion is enrolled in the cause of Mutual Improvement.

Civilization, so called, with a tide of evil and corrupting influences is sweeping the land with temptations calculated to lead the young into paths of vice and destruction. These must be resisted and overcome, because at war with peace and purity. Be ye lovers of men rather than lovers of pleasure. Using wisely the gifts and graces with which the Almighty has endowed you, rescue from the allurements of saloons, beer halls and other haunts of vice, those whom God has designed should move on a higher and purer moral plane.

Human redemption, from the effects of the fall, is the grandest work in which God and man can be engaged. Those who would be successfully employed in it must secure the testimony of the Holy Spirit, make virtue the jewel of the soul, purity of thought the guide of the heart, and honor, integrity and truth companions of daily life.

Conforming your exercises to the organizations of the Church, let all your teachings harmonize therewith; so shall all your works, under the proper use of the Priesthood which you bear, be sanctified to the honor and glory of God. The general authorities of the Church and those of the Wards and Stakes throughout Zion will give you encouragement and help whenever and wherever needed.

Half-yearly conferences of the various Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations may be held in the Stakes throughout Zion at such times and places as may be determined by the Stake Presidency and Superintendency of the Associations. These conferences may occupy two days, including one Sunday, and should be made occasions for receiving reports and giving mutual instructions that will tend to harmonize the manner of conducting the Associations and achieving the most satisfactory results.

A general conference of the Associations will be held about the first of June, 1888, and annually thereafter, the exact date and place to be hereafter named by the General Superintendency. The Associations should endeavor to continue their regular weekly meetings until about the time of the Annual Conference, before taking their summer vacation. At the general conference statistical and other necessary reports will be required and time given for the consideration of the best means and methods of promoting the education and welfare of the young men and women of Zion.

The Primary and Sunday School organizations, Mutual Improvement Associations, and Relief Societies have been instituted for a wise purpose. They are "helps and governments" calculated in their nature and design to accomplish much good among Saints. Each has a special field of usefulness not occupied by the others, and no man in this Church, filled with the Holy Ghost, will lay a straw in the way of either of them. Neither will he find occasion for manifestations of petty jealousies, by which to foster one at the expense of another.

The Sunday Schools have gradually and almost universally come to occupy the forenoon of each Sabbath. Have the interests of God's Church or the welfare of His people suffered thereby? Certainly not. What, indeed, is of more vital importance to us than the proper religious training of our children? What the Primary Associations begin, let the Sunday Schools and Mutual Improvement Associations continue. Each has