---
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: 6
published: 1904-04
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* 7, no. 6 (April 1904).
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0706unse
  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: improvementera0706unse
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 1904-04)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0706unse
  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*, April 1904

Vol.   
        VII. 
        The 
        Glory 
        of 
        God 
        is 
        Inteliligence. 
        No.   
        6.
IMPROVEMENT
ERA.
Organ 
        of 
        Young 
        Men's 
        Mutual 
        Improvement 
        Associations.
PUBLISHED 
        BY 
        THE 
        GENERAL 
        BOARD.
Joseph 
        F. 
        Smith,       
        j   
        w^ltora 
        Heber 
        J. 
        Grant, 
        1  
        Business
Edw. 
        H. 
        Anderson,   
        j   
        «-auorB' 
        Thos. 
        Hull, 
        (      
        Managers.
Entered 
        at 
        the 
        Post 
        Office, 
        Salt 
        Lake 
        City, 
        Utah, 
        as 
        Second 
        Glass 
        Matter.
APRIL, 
        1904.
TABLE 
        OF 
        CONTENTS.
Portrait 
        of 
        Hamilton 
        G. 
        Park
        Frontispiece
Joseph 
        Smith 
        as 
        Scientist.   
        VI
        Dr. 
        John 
        A. 
        Widtsoe 
        401
A 
        Stream 
        of 
        Revelation.    
        A 
        Poem
        T. 
        E. 
        Curtis 
        409
A 
        Roundelay 
        of 
        Salt 
        Lake
        Joaquin 
        Miller 
        410
Chips 
        From 
        "The 
        Block"
        Elder 
        Henry 
        W. 
        Naisbitt      
        414
The 
        Probability 
        of 
        Joseph 
        Smith's 
        Story. 
        II
        Elder 
        B. 
        H. 
        Roberts 
        417
Help 
        Others.   
        A 
        Poem
        '■'Herald 
        of 
        Union" 
        432
The 
        Celtic 
        Maiden.   
        A 
        Story 
        of 
        Ancient 
        Britain 
        Prof. 
        Willard 
        Done 
        433
Can 
        and 
        Do.   
        A 
        Poem
        441
Kentucky 
        Belle.    
        I
        President 
        A. 
        W. 
        Ivins 
        442
Public 
        Workers—
        Hamilton 
        Gray 
        Park.  
        A 
        Sketch 
        451
Lines 
        on 
        Reading 
        the 
        Life 
        of 
        Chas. 
        Kingsley
        Livingston 
        C. 
        Ashworth 
        453
Talks 
        to 
        Young 
        Men. 
        VI
        —
        The 
        Ideal 
        Young 
        Man... 
        454
Stay,   
        A 
        Poem
        458
Some 
        Leading 
        Events 
        in 
        the 
        Current 
        Story 
        of 
        the
World—
        Were 
        the 
        Japanese 
        Guilty 
        of 
        Treach-
ery?—
        The 
        Progress 
        of 
        the 
        War—
        Finances 
        in
the 
        Present 
        War—
        King 
        Coal—
        Cuba 
        in 
        Fash-
ion  
        Dr.J.M. 
        Tanner 
        45ft
Editor's 
        Table—
        Senator 
        Smoot's 
        Case—
        The 
        Fu-
ture of 
        our 
        Wheat 
        Crop—
        Questions 
        and 
        An-
swers— 
        May 
        Non-Members 
        of 
        the 
        Church
Join 
        the 
        M. 
        I. 
        A.?—
        Bearing 
        Testimony—
        A
Sermon—
        "The 
        Mormon 
        Point 
        of 
        View"—
        To
the 
        Reader
        4gg
In 
        Lighter 
        Mood
        473
Events 
        of 
        the 
        Month
        474
SALT 
        LAKE 
        CITY:
214 
        ^ 
        215 
        TEMPLETON 
        BUILDING.
Published 
        Monthly. 
        $2.00 
        Per 
        Annum.