---
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: 5
published: 1903-03
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* 6, no. 5 (March 1903).
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0605unse
  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: improvementera0605unse
curator_note: Cover, masthead, and contents retained. Unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted; this issue’s printed editorial pages 321–400 are imported as separate source-native records.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1903-03)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0605unse
  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*, March 1903

Vol.   VI. The Glory of God is Intelligence. ^O,   5.
IMPROVEMENT
ERA.
Organ  of  Young Mcn^s Mutual Improvement Associations.
PUBLISHED BY THE OENERAIj BOARD. ||'
Joseph F. Smith,       )  wnu^ra Hbbbr J. Grant, i  Business
Edw. H. Anderson,   |  ^vauors. Thos. Hull, )     Managers.
Entered at the Post Office, Salt Lake City, Utah, as Second Class Matter.
MARCH,   1903.
TABLE  OF CONTENTS.
Portrait of John Nicholson  Frontispiece
Tiger Hunting in India Col. R. M/Bryce Thomas    321
Youth to Springtime, a Poem E. H. Anderson 332
Mission and Teachings of Joseph Smith Maj. Richard W. Young       333
My Own, a  Poem  , 340
The "Mormon" Doctrine of Deity B. H. Roberts 341
Life's Mission F. F. Dalton 360
Put Yourself Into Your Work  361
John Nicholson, a Biographical Sketch Orson F. Whitney 362
Funeral Rites in Japan, Part II Alma O. Taylor 369
The Violet, a Poem Lydia D. Alder 376
Talks to Young Men, V—Habit  377
The Prophet Joseph Healing the Sick, a Poem...C. L. Walker 380
Some Leading Events in the Current Story of the
World—Trip Around the World—Necessity
the Mother of Invention—The Negro Ques-
tion in the South—Canada and Wheat—The
Panama   Canal   Treaty — The   Venezuelan
Troubles Dr. J. M. Tanner 381
Editor's Table—An Epistle on Ethics President Joseph F. Smith    388
"Mormon" Doctrine in Congress—Questions
and Answers: Ratio of Representation—Popu-
lation of Utah—Dowie and "That Prophet"—
The Angel Who Restored the Gospel—Notes
Events of the Month Thomas Hull 396
SALT LAKE CITY:
214 f^ 215 TEMPLETON BUILDING.
Published Monthly. $2.00 Per Annum