---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - The General Board
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 7
number: 10
published: 1904-08
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'The General Board, "Resolutions," *Improvement Era* 7, no. 10 (August 1904): 744.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0710unse
  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: improvementera0710unse
start_page: 744
end_page: 744
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1904-08)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0710unse
  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.
---

# Resolutions

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counted  him a trusted leader and careful counselor, it is scarcely
conceivable that it was the will of Providence that he should be
taken; but God permitted it, and he will overrule the sad incident
both for the good of the people and for his cause.
     We may rest assured that Brother and Sister Woodruff are
safe and happy, will obtain their rewards, and will be assigned to
enter upon      new and energetic missions.    And what of those who
are left behind?     Ours to praise God, do our duties, deal justly
with our fellows, and by faith and good works         prepare to follow
them.    The four little children who are left orphans thus sud-
denly will doubtless be well cared for, but the thought of their
loss and loneliness awakens     in our hearts the tenderest emotions

— emotions that may be      satisfied by the performance of kind acts

to any child     who may be within our reach, and who is       in lack of
companionship and sympathy.      Edward H. Anderson.

      We are confident that every young man in the Church will join
the General Board in the sentiments expressed in the resolutions
which follow, and which were neatly engrossed in book form, bound,
lettered, and presented to the family:

Resolutions in  memory of Abraham Owen Woodruff, passed by the General
      Board of the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, Salt
      Lake City, June 26, 1904.
    In the providences of the Almighty, we are called upon to deeply
mourn the departure from this life of our beloved brother and associate,
Apostle Abraham Owen Woodruff, who died in the city of El Paso,
Texas, Monday, June 20, 1904, but two weeks after the decease of his
beloved wife.
     Elder Woodruff was born on his father's farm, in the southern sub-
urb of Salt Lake City, November 23, 1872, and spent his childhood and
early youth in the dutiful performance of a boy's work around the farm,
and in attending school.    He was further educated   in   the Latter-day
Saints' College, and then entered upon a commercial life in the employ
                                                                         of
a local bank.
      At the age of twenty-one, he was called to go upon a mission to
Germany.     He spent over two years in this field, in great faithfulness
and fidelity, administering to the salvation of his fellow-men; and
himself acquiring a profound knowledge and testimony of the
                                                            Gospel of
Jesus Christ.