Show importance OP OF ORDER incidents come under which indicate a lack on the part of im local officers of the church in reference to the order of the priesthood when such sach is the case irregularities lari larl ties in management aie also almost sure to occur is as an outgrowth of a misapprehension ot of the details of the organization and the relationship ol of each division to the others our oar attention was directed to this subject a short time since by ft finding by ube me minutes of a stake conference that the seven presidents of a quorum of seventies had bad been presented and sustained as officers or authorities of the stake the seventies are not a local body being general in their character hence the first seven presidents who preside over them as a whole are classed among the general authorities of the church As abaco a consequence sequence in a quorum capacity the they are not under the direction or jurisdiction ur of a local I 1 presidency a and tile the quorum presidents are not stake 0 officers cers when however they are acting in any capacity within the stakes and wards as lor for instance as elders priests teachers or deacons and in their standing as members of tile the church they are subject to the ecclesiastical dire direction C tion ot of the presidents of stakes bishops and other local officers it to is the privilege of every officer of the Chur church cri to understand the scope PC duties and functions of every office within the organization including those higher than his own as well as those that are subordinate that every man may stand and act in his own place and not infringe upon that of another |