---
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: 4
published: 1904-02
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* 7, no. 4 (February 1904).
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0704unse
  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: improvementera0704unse
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 1904-02)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0704unse
  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*, February 1904

Vol     
        VII. 
        "^^^ 
        Glory 
        of 
        God 
        is 
        IntelligencS. 
        No.   
        4.
IMPROVEMENT
ERA.
Organ 
        of 
        Young 
        Men's 
        Mutual 
        Improvement 
        Associations.
PUBLISHED 
        BY 
        TBE 
        GENERAL 
        BOARD.
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        H^Idee^s;>k.   
        I   
        E'"**'"- 
        THOS. 
        HCI.I.. 
        1      
        Manager..
Entered 
        at 
        the 
        Post 
        Office, 
        Salt 
        Lake 
        City, 
        Utah, 
        as 
        Second 
        Class 
        Matter.
FEBRUARY, 
        1904.
TABLE 
        OF 
        CONTENTS.
Portrait 
        of 
        Hon. 
        John 
        Sharp
        ^     
        ,^     
        ^   
        „,_      
        Frontispiece
Joseph 
        Smith 
        as 
        Scientist.    
        IV
        Dr. 
        John 
        A^Wtdtsoe 
        241
"Pro 
        Deo."    
        A 
        Poem
        ?T^^^-
        '^^l^- 
        ^    
        w 
        111
The 
        Masterpiece
        L- 
        ^- 
        Greene 
        Richards 
        248
'4he" 
        O102V 
        Henry 
        W.N
        aisbitt 
        250
Ti^e 
        Celtic 
        Maiden.   
        A 
        Story 
        of 
        Ancient 
        Britain 
        Prof, 
        Willard 
        Done 
        254
A 
        Micisionarv's 
        Farewell 
        to 
        Marguerite. 
        A 
        Poem.. 
        Lydia 
        D. 
        Alder 
        262
taSsTsl?   
        Views 
        of 
        Manual 
        Modified
        M.W.Mansfield 
        264
Remarks 
        on 
        Jacob's 
        Isle  
        B. 
        H. 
        Roberts 
        267
Cigarettes 
        and 
        Crime
        •.
        t,zf.
Talks 
        to 
        Young 
        Men. 
        IV.-Ruts
        ., 
        ,   
        c-  
        ^ 
        Vnl
Need 
        of 
        Religious 
        Enlightenment
        NelsF. 
        Green 
        273
Th? 
        Church 
        and 
        Kingdom 
        of 
        God
        The 
        First 
        Presidency 
        274
Do 
        it 
        Well
        •••■•
        -
        ;iX
Public 
        Workers—
        John 
        Sharp.   
        A 
        Sketch
        ^au
Lucky 
        Ted.    
        A 
        Poem 
        ••
        •••••• 
        '^^^
Some 
        Leading 
        Events 
        in 
        the 
        Current 
        Story 
        of 
        the
World—
        The 
        Far 
        Eastern 
        Question—
        The 
        Pan-
ama Question-
        Shall 
        We 
        Rule 
        the 
        Seas?—
Abyssinia—
        Will 
        he 
        Lose 
        his 
        Chances 
        for 
        the
Senate?-Taking 
        Church 
        Census-Sensation
over 
        Emperor 
        William
        ^'^L'^-a^u    
        T^'^,.' 
        ?q?
Thrilling 
        Experience 
        at 
        Sea.....
        John 
        A   
        Hendnckson 
        291
The 
        Dawn 
        of 
        Truth.- 
        A 
        Poem
        T. 
        E. 
        Curtis 
        293
A 
        Peculiar 
        Cystom 
        of 
        a 
        Peculiar 
        People
        Don 
        C. 
        W 
        Musser 
        295
A.» 
        \Y/A 
        Hnnf.st'? 
        Fruncis 
        M
        . 
        Shafer 
        300
the 
        ^acrSi 
        w'tho 
        doGood::
        ;
        George 
        W   
        Crocheron 
        301
A 
        Praver     
        A 
        Poem 
        Annie 
        G. 
        Launtzen 
        302
Editor's 
        Table
        -The'Cause 
        for 
        Worry
        President 
        Joseph 
        F. 
        Smith    
        303
Notes
309
In 
        Lighter 
        Mood
        •••••■■■.
        i^""
Our 
        Work
        -To 
        the 
        Reader-
        Pre 
        iminary   
        Pro-
grams—
        Enrollment 
        of 
        General 
        Officers
        ^lu
Events 
        of 
        the 
        Month..
        "^^^
SALT 
        LAKE 
        CITY:
214- 
        ^ 
        215 
        TEMPLETON 
        BUILDING.
Published 
        Monthly. 
        $2.00 
        Per 
        Annum.