---
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: 6
published: 1903-04
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. 6 (April 1903).
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0606unse
  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: improvementera0606unse
curator_note: Cover, masthead, and contents retained. Unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted; this issue’s printed editorial pages 401–480 are imported as separate source-native records.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1903-04)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0606unse
  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*, April 1903

Vol.   VI. The Glory of God is Intelligence. No.   6.
IMPROVEMENT
ERA.
Organ  of  Young Men^s Mutual Improvement Associations^
^Wj^ PUBLISHED BY THE GENERALi BOARD.
Joseph F. Smith,        )  «Hifnr« Hbbkr J. Grant, }  Business
Edw. H. ANDERSON,   i   Editors.  Thos. hull, S      Managers.
Entered at the Post Office, Salt Lake City, Utah, as Second Class Matter.
APRIL,   1903.
TABLE  OF CONTENTS.
Portrait of Major Richard W. Young  Frontispiece
A Week in a Box Canyon, ERA Prize Story   Malcolm Little 401
Then and Now, a Poem  Edward H.Anderson 408'
Some Mistakes Made While Preaching the Gospel W. A. Morton 409-
The Victor, a Poem  Clinton D. Ray 411
A Trip to Mexico.  B. F. Grant 412
Shall We Practice Hypnotism?  Apostle F. M. Lyman 420'
Parenthood  Dr. Geo. H. Brimhall 421
The Art of Letting Go  428
A Visit to the  "Cedric"  Joseph .J. Cannon 429'
Richard W.Young, a Biography  AndrewJenson 435
A "Mormon's" Creed, a Poem  A. B. Christensen 437
Love and Betrothals  Jos. E. Taylor 441
Events Proclaim Joseph a Prophet  Dr. Geo. H. Brimhall 446
John Nicholson II, Biographical Sketch  Orson F. Whitney 447
f Interesting Selections  455
Talks to Young Men, VI—Manners  456
Some Leading Events in the Current Story of the
World—Chamberlain in South Africa—Failure
of the Educated Class to Reproduce Itself—
Jewish Encyclopedia—The Negro's Appoint-
ment to Federal Office—The Troubles in Mac-
edonia—A New Way of Proselyting—The Mo-
tor   Bicycle—A Curious  Discovery  Dr. J. M. Tanner 4Q2
Editor's Table—Congress and the "Mormons"  President Joseph F. Smith   469
Questions and Answers   473
In Lighter Mood  475
Events of the Month  Thomas Hull 476
SALT LAKE CITY:
214 t^ 215 TEMPLETON BUILDING.
Published Monthly. ' $2.00 Per Annum.