---
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: 3
published: 1903-01
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* 6, no. 3 (January 1903).
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0603unse
  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: improvementera0603unse
curator_note: Cover, masthead, and contents retained. Unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted; this issue’s printed editorial pages 161–240 are imported as separate source-native records.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1903-01)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0603unse
  publication_year: 1903
  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 1903, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# *Improvement Era*, January 1903

Vol,   VI. The Glory of God is Intelligence. No.   3.
IMPROVEMENT
ERA.
Organ of Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations.
PUBLISHED BYTBE GENERAL BOARD.
Joseph F. Smith,        )  TMitnra Hbbkr J. Grant, )   Business
Edw. H. Anderson,   |   ^a"°rs. Thos. Holl, J      Managers.
Entered at the Post Office, Salt Lake City, Utah, as Second Class Matter.
JANUARY,   1903.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
The "Mormon" Doctrine of Deity.—A Rejoinder
to Reverend C. Van der Donckt's "Reply" to
Elder B. H. Roberts' Discourse on the above
subject ~  B. H. Roberts 161
Hail to the Prince and the Princess, a Poem  Prof. Geo. H. Brimhall       186
Plet: A Christmas Tale of the Wasatch—III  Alfred Lambourne 187
Talks to Young Men—III—Books—Their Choice,
Use and Value  198
Appendix to the History of the Prophet Joseph
(Concluded)  Lucy Smith 202
Two Governing Forces  George A. Langston 210
Peace Fetters, a Poem  Bertha E. Anderson 216
Tea,   Coffee,   Cocoa,  and  Chocolate—The   Evil
Effects of  their Poisons upon the   Human
System  Br. U. L. Gardner 217
Some Leading Events in the Current Story of the
World—Progress of the "Mormon" Colonies
in Canada—The World's New Girdle—Cuban
Prosperity—The Daukhobors  Dr. J. M. Tanner 221
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Questions and Answers—A Member's First Duty
—Calling in the Priesthood—How to Decide
Doctrinal Questions  232
Our Work—Conjoint Meeting of General Boards—
M. I. A. in Chicago—The General Missionaries 234
Events of the Month  Thomas Hull 237
SALT LAKE CITY:
214 ^ 215 TEMPLETON BUiLDING.
Published Monthly. $2.00 Per Annum.