---
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: 8
number: 10
published: 1905-08
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Notes," *Improvement Era* 8, no. 10 (August 1905): 781.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0810unse
  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: improvementera0810unse
start_page: 781
end_page: 781
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1905-08)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0810unse
  publication_year: 1905
  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 1905, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Notes

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EDITOR'S TABLE.                          781
Prophet of God, who resent every insinuation against his characer, and who shrink not from the world's enmity
                                                       which the
Prophet Joseph Smith's claim to have received a dispensation from
heaven has called forth.
     Again, Mr. Smith, it is proved that your assertions are untrue.
It is painful to  have to convict you of being a wilful perverter of
facts, and also a persecutor, without excuse, of
                                              those who belong
to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which your
grandfather was the instrument of bringing into existence, and
which has remained intact ever since, under the successive presidencies of Brigham Young,            John Taylor, Wilford Woodruff, Lorenzo Snow, and Joseph F. Smith,            all truthful men; but you are
guilty of bearing false        witness, and your unrepentant persistence
in wrongdoing impels me to press the charge to judgment.
                                                              Ephraim.
                        QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
The Stick of Ephraim.
       Why    is   the Book of Mormon called the Stick of Ephraim, when   it
is   understood to have been written by the descendents of Lehi who was
a descendant of Manasseh?        (See Ezekiel 37:16; Doctrine and Covenants
Sec. 27:5).
     The Book of Mormon refers to Lehi's colony as made up of
descendants of Manasseh and Ephraim.    Lehi was a descendant
of Manasseh, and Ishmael, of Ephraim. In the Manual for 1903-4,
(page 95) it is shown that there are promises in the Hebrew
scriptures respecting Ephraim, which cannot be realized, so far
as we know, except through the seed of Ephraim dwelling upon
the land of America.          Since Lehi was of Manasseh, and Mulek's
colony were Jews, it leaves Ishmael alone to introduce the descendants of Ephraim into the western world.            The intermarriage
of the families of Lehi and Ishmael effectually accomplished this.
President Franklin D. Richards, and other Latter-day Saints acquainted with the Prophet Joseph, have declared, to this writer's
personal knowledge, that in conversation they had known him to