---
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: 6
number: 2
published: 1902-12
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Questions and Answers—Sealing of Eliza R. Snow to the Prophet Joseph—Translation of the Book of Mormon," *Improvement Era* 6, no. 2 (December 1902): 153.'
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  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0602unse
  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: improvementera0602unse
start_page: 153
end_page: 153
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1902-12)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0602unse
  publication_year: 1902
  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 1902, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Questions and Answers—Sealing of Eliza R. Snow to the Prophet Joseph—Translation of the Book of Mormon
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EDITOR'S TABLE.                                  163

peaceful benedictions, with the gospel's polar light of truth beckoning
them on to the glory of the Father.
    In The Castle Builder, the story is only begun.   To tell the re-
mainder will require a greater volume. Some day, I hope, that may be
written.    If not by   my friend, Nephi Anderson, then by a descendant of
his characters,   — a young manin whose soul the dream-and-work energy
of Harald and the love-nature of Thora are curiously intertwined with
the sweet spirit of an English Pioneer wanderer in the American desert,
whose pretty castles, because Need pointed to lowlier things, only in the
mists were builded.
     In the meantime, the reader will find delight in the true-to-life
introduction which this book gives to the lives of two typical "Mormon'
converts.

                     QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
The Sealing of Eliza R. Snow to the Prophet Joseph.
    Did Eliza R. Snow testify in what             is   known as the "Temple Lot
Suit," that she was sealed to the Prophet Joseph after he            was dead, and
not while he was living?

    She did not so testify. Any one pretending to have such tes-
timony may be truly set down as an impostor.

Translation of the Book of Mormon.

    Into what languages has the         Book of Mormon been translated and
printed?

     It is well     known that the Book           of    Mormon was translated
into the English language from the plates of gold, by the prophet
Joseph Smith, by the gift and power of God, through the Urim and
Thummim.       The first American edition from such translation was
printed in Palmyra, New York, in 1830.                 From the English it has
been translated into fourteen other languages, but in ten only of
these has it been printed:        viz., in   Danish, in 1851; Welsh, French,
German and     Italian, in    1852; Hawaiian, 1855; Swedish, in 1878;
Spanish, 1886;      Maori,   in    1889; and the Dutch          in    1890.   The
translations in Hindostanee, modern Jewish, Turkish and Samoan,
have not yet been printed.          The first Utah edition bears the date
of 1871.