---
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: 4
published: 1903-02
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. 4 (February 1903).
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0604unse
  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: improvementera0604unse
curator_note: Cover, masthead, and contents retained. Unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted; this issue’s printed editorial pages 241–320 are imported as separate source-native records.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1903-02)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0604unse
  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*, February 1903

February
1903
The Glory of God is Intelligence.
No. 4.
IMPROVEMENT
ERA.
Organ  of  Young Men's Mutual  Improvement  Associations.
PUBLISHED BY THE GENERAL. BOARD.
Joseph ¥. Smith,        >   pditors
Kdw. H. Anderson,   S   a
Hkbkr J. Grant,
Thos. Hull.
Business
Managers.
Entered at the Post Office, Salt Lake City, Utah, as Second Class Matter.
FEBRUARY,   1903.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Dr. Milton H. Hardy  Frontispiece.
The "Mormon" Doctrine of Deity  B. H. Roberts 241
Among the Boulders, a Poem  Livingston C. Ashworth        255
Some Sayings  Geo. W.Crocheron 256
Living Faith—The secret of "Mormon" Success... Elder Nephi Pratt 257
The Reward of Service  Browning. 265
In Memory  W.J. Sloan. 266
Birthday Song of Praise, a Poem  L. L. Greene Richards. 269
"Jagd Nach Dem Gleuck."  Hugh J. Cannon 271
A New Year—A New Motto   J- Lloyd Woodruff. 21A
Fruits of the Fall  J- Preston Creer. 277
God's Omnipresence   Dr. Frederic Clift 282
Some Leading Events in the Current Story of the
World—Venezuela's New Troubles—Results
of Wnr in South Africa—Increased Emigration
and Famine—Child Labor in the South—
Another Triumph—Thomas B. Reed—Vigoi-
ous to the Last .'  Dr.J.M. Tanner 283
Talks to Young Men IV—What Books to Read... 290
Funeral Rites of Japan I  Alma O. Taylor 295
Do it Now  304
Editor's Table—"Where Your Treasure is, There
will Your Heart be Also"    President Joseph F. Smith    305
Answers to Questions—Joining Secret Socie-
ties—Raffling and Gambling—The Gospel-
Choosing a Patriarch—Authority of John the
Baptist—New Dispensations of the Gospel—
Did  the   Prophets   Hold   the    Melchizedek
Priesthood?—Appendages to the Priesthood.. 308
Secretaries of General Board Y. M. M. I. A.,.. 313
Announcements—The ERA Story- A Thrill-
ing Narrative—Conjoint M. LA. Conferences,
1903  314
Book Mention  315
Notes  316
Events of the Month  Thomas Hull 317
SALT LAKE CITY:
214 tP 215 TEMPLETON BUILDING.
Published Monthly.
$2.00 Per Annum.