---
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: 7
number: 3
published: 1904-01
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* 7, no. 3 (January 1904).
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0703unse
  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: improvementera0703unse
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 1904-01)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0703unse
  publication_year: 1904
  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 1904, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# *Improvement Era*, January 1904

{   
        I
Vol.   
        VII, 
        The 
        GJory 
        of 
        God 
        is 
        Intelligence. 
        —^     
        NO.   
        3.
IMPROVEMENT
ERA.
Orgfan 
        of 
        Young 
        Men's 
        Mutual 
        Improvement 
        Associations.
PUBLISHED 
        BY 
        THB 
        OENEBAIj 
        BOARD.
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        Thos. 
        Hull, 
        (      
        Managers.
Entered 
        at 
        the 
        Post 
        OfiBce, 
        Sale 
        Lake 
        City, 
        Utah, 
        as 
        Second 
        Class 
        Matter.
JANUARY. 
        1904.
TABLE 
        OF 
        CONTENTS.
Portrait 
        of 
        James 
        Jack
        Frontispiece
Joseph 
        Smith 
        as 
        Scientist.   
        Ill
        Dr. 
        John 
        A. 
        Widtsoe 
        163
What 
        of 
        That?   
        A 
        Poem
        167
The 
        Celtic 
        Maiden.   
        A 
        Story 
        of 
        Ancient 
        Britain 
        Prof. 
        Willard 
        Done 
        168
Something 
        to 
        Read
        H. 
        L. 
        Elm'endorf 
        174
Manhood
        Prest. 
        Francis 
        M
        . 
        Lyman       
        175
Bible 
        Quotations 
        in 
        the 
        Book 
        of 
        Mormon; 
        )   
        B. 
        H. 
        Roberts
and 
        Reasonableness 
        of 
        Nephi's 
        Prophecies 
        ( 
        H. 
        Chamberlain 
        179
The 
        Work 
        of 
        Plodders
        S. 
        A. 
        Kenner 
        197
Our 
        Standard 
        Church 
        Works
        Joaeph 
        F. 
        Smith, 
        Jr. 
        201
Talks 
        to 
        Young 
        Men. 
        III.—
        Doing 
        Things 
        Indif-
ferently   
        208
Mastering 
        Moods
        O. 
        S. 
        Marden 
        213
Public 
        Workers—
        James 
        Jack
        214
Christmas.   
        A 
        Poem
        Brigham 
        Clegg 
        215
Some 
        Leading 
        Events 
        in 
        the 
        Current 
        Story 
        of 
        the
World—
        The 
        Panama 
        Canal—
        Herbert 
        Spen-
cer—
        The 
        Japanese 
        Exclusion 
        Bill—
        The 
        Mac-
edonian  Question
        —
        Uncle  
        Sam's 
        Widows
        —
Russia 
        and 
        Japan
        Dr.J.M. 
        Tanner 
        217
Editor's 
        Table
        -The 
        Law 
        of 
        Recompense
        President 
        Joseph 
        F. 
        Smith    
        225
Our 
        Work
        —
        A 
        Little 
        Sermon 
        to 
        Questioners
        —
Reports 
        of 
        Local 
        Missionaries—
        History 
        of
the 
        Prophet 
        Joseph
        229
Events 
        of 
        the 
        Month
        231
SALT 
        LAKE 
        CITY:
214 
        .^ 
        215 
        TEMPLETON 
        BUILDING.
Published 
        Monthly. 
        $2.00 
        Per 
        Annum.