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Apostle C. George Mesley was in charge of the work in Australia, he recommended to the
Board of Publication of the Australian Mission that a Members' Manual be compiled and
printed. The Board responded enthusiastically, and Brother Mesley assigned to Brother C.
A. Davies the task of pioneering in this field. Since his general church appointment in 1928, Brother Davies has had continual assignments to pastoral supervision of branches of the church and was well qualified in other ways to accept the challenging responsibility given to him. So far as possible, he has drawn on the statements of church officials which have appeared in the Saints' Herald, the Priesthood Journal, the Standard, and elsewhere. The resulting publication has been widely and effectively used in Australia. It has been revised in some minor details, but full credit for its present form and availability should be given to Brother Mesley and Brother Davies, whose work we now acknowledge with grateful appreciation. We feel sure that the Manual will come to have an important place in our church literature, and we ask for it the careful and prayerful study of those into whose hands it shall come. THE
FIRST PRESIDENCY, |