A recent post on this blog reprinted two letters from Melvin J. Ballard in late summer 1913. At the time, he was midway through his ten-year service as president of the Northwestern States Mission. (He was released in 1919 to serve in the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.) Both letters deal almost entirely with improving the mission’s statistics, and the author of the post writes, “It’s uncomfortable to see how focused on numbers … the l...
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