--- 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: 4 number: 3 published: 1901-01 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "In Lighter Mood," *Improvement Era* 4, no. 3 (January 1901): 233.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0403unse 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: improvementera0403unse start_page: 233 end_page: 233 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1901-01) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0403unse publication_year: 1901 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 1901, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # In Lighter Mood EDITOR'S TABLE. ' 231 record of our Sunday Schools from the time of the organization of the first one in Utah, in December, 1849, to December, 1899, covering a period of fifty years. In the fore part of the work, the general Sunday School movement among the Latter-day Saints is briefly treated. Following this is a short historical sketch of each stake and ward Sunday School organization in Zion, with reports of the mission Sunday Schools of The Church. A complete report of the proceedings of the grand Sunday School jubilee celebration, held in the Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, October 8, 1899, is also given. This work is embellished with nine half-tone engravings, containing portraits of the general Sunday School officers, members of the first Sabbath School in Utah, stake superintendents, representatives of nations, etc. The volume, which contains 546 pages, handsomely printed, and neatly bound in cloth, represents a great amount of care and labor in collecting the information it contains. It is a very useful work of reference, and of special interest to the vast army of Sunday School workers in Zion. The book is published and for sale by the Deseret Sunday School Union, Salt Lake City, and is to be had for the small sum ' of $1.00. NOTES. Discretion in speech is more than eloquence. because his ordi- God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, nary works convince it. swollen, and Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and and drown things weighty and solid. to be skilled in his The true composition of a counsellor is rather is like to advise him, and master's business than his nature; for then he not to feed his humor.— Lore/ Bacon. with the fate which The intelligent reader is no doubt familiar theologians. In the name the scripture has met at the hands of modern