---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 2
number: 3
published: 1899-01
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: "Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, \"Editor’s Table: Acts of Special Providence in Missionary Experience,\" *Improvement Era* 2, no. 3 (January 1899): 229."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera23unse
  transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers.
  identifier: improvementera23unse
start_page: 229
end_page: 229
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1899-01)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera23unse
  publication_year: 1899
  note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1899, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Editor’s Table: Acts of Special Providence in Missionary Experience

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ask that our young men will aid in making such a valuable collection, t
ACTS OF SPECIAL PROVIDENCE IN MISSIONARY
EXPERIENCE.
We promised in our prospectus a collection of incidents
wherein the special providence of God had been manifested in the
experiences of our Elders engaged in the ministry. We desire to
call the attention of our readers as well as the officers of the associations to the fact that we are dependent upon the Elders who
have had experience in missionary labors for this collection. We
therefore extend an invitation to all such Elders to write us one
or more, or half a dozen for that matter, of such experiences; that
is, incidents which have come within their own observation wherein
the special providence of God has been manifested in their own
preservation, or which contributed to the special success of their
missions. We know that the experiences of our Elders are replete
with circumstances of this character, and it will make the pages
of the Era faith-promoting if such accounts are published. We
desire that these experiences shall be those of recent years, in
order that we may keep before the minds of our youth the fact
that the power of God is as active today as in former years;
and that now, as then, God confirms the authority and ministry
of his servants by signs following them that believe.
We trust our brethren will not fail to forward us their contributions for this collection of incidents. This kind of narrative
is the simplest form of composition, and we hope that our Elders
will very generally respond to the invitation to contribute their
experiences to this series of articles. Especial pains should be
taken to be explicit as to the time and place of the incident, and
the names of other parties involved in the circumstance should
be carefully given. Do not scrimp the story, tell it in full, but
expect us to exercise the privilege of editing the matter freely,