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Show SGOVILLE QUITS' CHURCH POSITiOM Bishop G. E. Browning Suc-1 ceeds President A. L. Sco-ville Sco-ville in Weber Stake Bishop George R. Rrowning of the' Second ward was selected as second, counsellor to 1 "resident Lewis W. Shurthff of the Weber stake, at a spe-i I clal priesthood meotin; held In the I Second ward chapel yesterday after-1 noon. Bishop Browning succeeds I President Alva I,. Scovllle. who re-; signed from the stake presidency re-j j cently and whose resignation was act-i ied upon by the stake presidency and! ; high council last Tuesday, j Following the unanimous selection' i of Bishop Browning to the stake prcsl-, l dency, he was ordained and set apart to the office by Apostle David O. Mc-1 ! ICay. Bishop Browning has been presld- IIJIB iiM'l I in OWVUI1U wain l: llli: four jcars, succeeding Bishop Robert I McQuarrie. who held the office fu I over forty years. His elevation to the siake presidency came as a com-i com-i pleto surprise to members of the Bee I ond ward who had not even learned of the resignation of President Scovllle Sco-vllle President Scoville gave as his reason rea-son for resigning the fact that his business takes him from the city for several months during the ear and he was unable to give the time and attention at-tention to his duties in the stake to i the extent that he desired Ills reslg-I reslg-I notion was accepted with rerct. I Apostle McKay delivered an address at the meeting yesterday dealing with the duties of members of the priesthood priest-hood n-id exhorting them to prove ihcuelves worthy of the high office j to which they had been ordained. |