---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Adams, Samuel L.
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 10
number: 3
published: 1907-01
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Adams, Samuel L., "A Prophecy Fulfilled," *Improvement Era* 10, no. 3 (January 1907): 231.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1003unse
  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: improvementera1003unse
start_page: 231
end_page: 231
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1907-01)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1003unse
  publication_year: 1907
  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 1907, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# A Prophecy Fulfilled

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EDITOR'S TABLE. 231
In conclusion, we sincerely pray that the coming year may be
a prosperous one, and that the Latter-day Saints may be abund-
antly blessed both temporally and spiritually, and that in their
prosperity they will ever remember the beneficent Giver of all
they receive.
We wish our people a joyful Christmas and a happy New Year.
Your brethren in the gospel of Christ,
Joseph F. Smith,
Anthon H. Lund,
John R. Winder.
The Deseret News.
A

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PROPHECY FULFILLED.
President Joseph F. Smith, Editor of Improvement
Era:—I was never more pleased with a number of the Era than
with the November issue. It seems more interesting than ever to
me. If the balance of the volume should prove a failure, I have in
this single number the full returns for my money for the year's
subscription.
Reading one article led my mind back fifty- one years. It
was "Prophecy and its Fulfilment." Now I want to tell some-
thing that had almost gone from my mind. In the year 1855,
Nephi City and her citizens saw the hardest times in their history.
Grasshoppers by the mils! In the northeast corner of their fort
—which was twelve feet high,and from wall to north ditch was about
four rods wide—from east wall west for twenty rods the hoppers
piled themselves in, making one great mass for twenty rods almost
to the top of the wall.
Many of the people felt downcast, they saw no show for a
harvest and cogitations ran high and fast. On the Sabbath day,
we were all in meeting, and all needed encouragement but who was
thereto give it? The year 1854 produced a light harvest, scarcely
a family had a bushel of wheat more than would last them until
harvest again. Our crops ware now mowed down. The scrub oaks
were stripped of their leaves, all vegetation was gone. Who was