Jess explains Church Correlation to Hannah, and the closest comparison she could find is McDonald's.
Before 1960, Relief Society, Primary, and Sunday School ran their own curriculum, magazines, conferences, and administrative structures. Missions published their own magazines. One Mexican mission spent around 360 missionary hours every month producing one of them. Lessons written in Utah landed strangely abroad, and the Relief Society schedule covered only eight months of the year until 1980 because it was built around North American summer vacation. Then headquarters built a system, complete with master curriculum charts.
Correlation solved real logistical problems for a church going global. It also moved decisions about curriculum, publications, and programs toward the center. In 1970, Relief Society reported about 338,000 members and roughly 301,000 magazine subscriptions. The Relief Society Magazine ended that year anyway. Five years later, Belle Spafford said women were still writing to ask for it back.
Plus: Harold B. Lee's "program of defense," a 1962 article titled "Elimination of the Insignificant," and Hannah's case for the Mc Haggis.
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