be forwarded after work is done to the stake genealogical committee. The work must be recorded, and when done distributed to the ward committees who will hand them to the respective owners.

6. In endowment work use the sheets previously used for baptism if possible. Each person doing such work must have his own record sheet and must file it with the temple recorders, personally, and deliver the same before leaving the recording rooms. These record sheets are left at the Temple, with instructions to forward to the stake genealogical committee.

7. Writing on all temple record sheets should be in ink, and plainly written. Full names should be given and the record made complete in every detail.

8. The stake committees will secure all kinds of temple sheets, including those used for sealings and adoptions, and furnish them on application.

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9. Get your full quota for every excursion, and no

Baptismal Excursions.

The ward committee must not select the young people for baptismal excursions. When a call is made for young people for these excursions, please notify the Bishop and ask him to select and call them and appoint a meeting to instruct them. The committee can and should aid the Bishop as he may direct in this matter; and under the Bishop's direction see that they have a proper chaperon. No company of young people should be permitted to go without a proper chaperon to look after them.

Instructions to Young People.

We realize much harm can come to the young people if this work is not properly done, just as much good will result if it is properly done. And while proper chaperonage is, we believe, necessary to this end, we must not lose sight of the necessity of proper instructions also all along the way. We recommend that those coming be impressed with their duties in the preparation of mind

and body if they would receive a blessing and realize the sacredness of the work and of the place to which they go. They must be strictly honest and clean, and keep themselves free from the very appearance of evil; they should learn the Mormon creed, "mind your own business," and avoid unpleasantness; then they must be impressed with the power and importance of the mission of Elijah-the mercies of God our Father in the work of salvation for the dead-the wonderful justice of God in it-the privileges we enjoy through it-the duties we owe to those on the "other side" in this connection-the comfort, safety and hope it insures in our lives-the glorious reward it offers, and the sorrow and condemnation that comes if we treat it lightly and disregard it; thus they may be impressed with the fact that "obedience" is heaven's first law, and that order grows out of it. They must not attempt to go anywhere or do anything without permission, while on this mission.

If they cannot subscribe to the rules of proper conduct, they should not have this privilege.

Record Sheets for Baptism.

Record sheets should be complete in every detail, including the names of the proxies, and be delivered to the stake committee in ample time before the date of the excursion. This, because sheets must be in the Temple for the use of the temple recorders three days before the excursion, and the stake committee requires one day to go over them and correct them if necessary, in order to avoid possible disappointments and unpleasantness. In baptismal work, each record sheet must contain the name of males or females, only as the case may be, the boys being baptized for males and the girls for females.

The clothing to be worn by those doing baptismal work, must be clean, white, and sufficiently heavy to cover the body when wet.

Ward Secretaries.-Minutes.

It is desired that each committee have a secretary

to keep a faithful record of all that is done by the committee in the ward. We recommend in this connection that the secretary preface the minute book and the historical record with a brief history of the genealogical movement in the ward. The Bishops and the ward clerks and those who, have formerly had charge of this work can, from the ward records and from memory, give you the dates, etc. In many of the wards the older members of the Relief Society will undoubtedly be able to give you valuable data relative to the early genealogical history. Attend to this without delay, so that your records may be complete.

Rolls.

Keep and call complete roll, showing the attendance of officers and members of the committee at all regular meetings; and at all special meetings give credit of attendance in the minutes of the meeting. If any member has a legitimate reason for absence, such as sickness or absence from the ward or city, that should be noted; but no one should be excused, nor should the record so show, except for the above reasons or in case the member is engaged in committee work.

Statistics and Reports.

Whenever statistics and reports are requested by a certain date, please be prompt always. Make your reports full and in ink, so that they can be filed away for future reference. Keep copies of all reports.

General Correspondence.

No correspondence of a general nature, naturally belonging to the stake committee, should be carried on by the ward committees. But if you have anything of this nature kindly confer with the secretary of the stake committee and follow his directions; this to avoid confusion.

Family Records.

Are you ready for the aim: "A family record in every home?" We hope you are. Push this work with all vigor.

If we can get the people interested in a record for the living, we believe that their interest in a record of the dead will naturally follow. Elder John A. Widtsoe said: "We should get in the habit of faithfully keeping a family record, for it is the stone upon which the fireplace is built.'

Conclusion.

Finally, brethren and sisters, be constant, faithful and prompt in this mission, and let us seek diligently to turn the hearts of the children to their fathers (Doc. and Cov. Sec. 98), in one united effort throughout the stakes of Zion.

CHAPTER 18

TEMPLES

All ancient peoples built altars and sanctuaries as places of worship. The savage set up his own altars in response to the impulse within him to reverence, or to appease the idol gods whom he worshiped. The intelligent pagan did likewise with slightly more consistency based on his corrupted traditions that had come down through the ages and which were the outgrowth of the correct teachings given by our father Adam and Noah to their children. The Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians and other ancients built magnificent edifices in which they set up the images of their gods and worshiped them. This is also true of the Greeks and Romans. Paul, while on one of his missionary journeys through Asia Minor came in contact with the spirit of this worship at Ephesus, the account of which reads as follows:

"For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver shrines for Diana, brought no small gain unto the draftsmen;

"Whom he called together with the workmen of like occupation, and said, Sirs, ye know that by this craft we have our wealth.

"Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands.

"So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at naught; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.

"And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians."