--- 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: 5 published: 1899-03 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, *Improvement Era* 2, no. 5 (March 1899), cover, masthead, and table of contents. source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera25unse 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: improvementera25unse curator_note: Cover, masthead, and table of contents retained. Front and back advertising leaves are intentionally omitted; they are commercial advertisements rather than editorial content. rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1899-03) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera25unse 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. --- # Cover, Masthead, and Contents BY PROFESSOR 1 1. NELSON IN ERA FOR APRIL VOL. II. The Glory of God is Intelligence. NO. 5. IMPROVEMENT ERA. Organ of Young Men's Mutual Improveme nt Associations, PUBLISHED^ BY THE GENERAL' BOARD. , Heber J. Grant, Business Tos F Smith, ) ^.-^ ^'^^t""- j Managers. B H ROBER?4, ! . THOS.HTTLL. j MARCH, 1899. TABLE OF CONTENTS. Dreyfus and the Administration of Law .•••• Professor J. M. Tanner 321 IN France Lamentation on the Death of a Father, Sarah E. Pearson 66]. a Poem Ne^hi Anderson 332 From Faith TO Faith Samoa and her Neighbors W.O.Lee 3^5 Kung Hsien Ho 338 Oriental Religious Faiths— Confucianism. . . Miss Landon 34b The Sword, a Poem Early Scenes and Incidents in the Church Oliver Cowdery 34j Professor Willard Done 351 Lives of the Apostles— Paul ^^^ Moral Qualities of Milton Acts of Special Providence in Missionary Experience W. W. Cluff 3b3 An Incident of the Black Forest and the Apache Indians Andrew L. Badgers 3bb A. Wootton 3b« Bigotry Opposed to Progress Sonnet 370 The Bible as a Factor in Education A Story of Edison the Inventor ^^^ W. Richards 61 What is Man S. Editor's Table The Philippine Problem— : The Proriipter- Where Virtue Is 007 Notes . ^°^ ^°^ In Lighter Mood Our Work: Finish the Course of Study— Word About the Era— Report of M. I. Missionary Work— A Third Edition of Manual for 1897-98 ^ qqq 6\)^ Events OF the Month Thomas Hull SALT LAKE CITY: 213 AND 214 TE^M PLvKTQN BLPO. Published IVIonthly. $2. per Annum. BRAHMO-SOMAJ, OF INDIA APRIL IN ERA KOR