Improvement Era, 1918 by Unknown

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Quorum Fraternity and Officers' Responsibility, Granite Stake

The Presidency of the Granite stake and the High Council have sent out the following message to the bishoprics and priesthood quorums teaching specially the responsibility of presidencies of quorums in looking after their members, and in extending their work beyond merely holding quorum meetings, and also in creating a spirit of closer brotherhood among the members:

Brethren: We believe that presiding officers of the quorums of the Melchizedek Priesthood should carry a greater responsibility than they now appear to feel.

Their activities should be extended beyond the holding of quorum meetings.

They should feel a deep responsibility for the spiritual growth and correct living of the men belonging to their respective quorums.

They should inaugurate such missionary effort as may be necessary to keep their members alive, active, and anxious to take advantage of their spiritual opportunities.

As presiding officers of the quorum to which delinquent members belong, it would be perfectly consistent and fitting for officers, or duly appointed representatives, to visit the members in their homes, or reach them in any proper manner calculated to awaken their interest and gain their attendance at quorum meetings, and have them perform their duties as holders of the Priesthood.

Such efforts would be wholly in addition to the regular work of the acting teachers, whose responsibilities as such teachers must not be reduced by the efforts of the quorum presidency. The special missionaries, however, should be relieved of any responsibility as to these delinquent holders of the Melchizedek Priesthood.

Presidencies of Lesser Priesthood quorums should be encouraged constantly to feel after the younger members of their quorums especially setting their faces against all forms of wrong doing. Priests should set examples of right living and lead out in Church activity which every member of their quorum could be asked to follow.

They should keep in touch with their members outside of the quorum meetings, whether in their homes, in school, on the playground, in the field or the workshop, and constantly use their influence in love for their uplifting.

We know there are men of mature age holding the Lesser Priesthood, who are not living up to their privileges, but who probably cannot be successfully reached by the younger men or boys of the presidency of the quorum to which they properly belong. These, as well as lay members, indifferent sisters, and non-members, would be proper subjects for the work of the special missionary corps.

Living up to these responsibilities by presidencies of quorums would result in their being in such close touch with each member that they could and, in our opinion, should become of great help to their ward bishoprics.

When the bishopric want men for ward work they should consult the quorum presidency regarding the fitness of the men for such work, or ask for recommendations from the presidency for the filling of such needs. The results of such a procedure would be a lightening of the Bishop's load, and giving a dignity to the quorum presidencies to which they are entitled and which would surely strengthen their power and influence for good.

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