--- 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: 11 number: 4 published: 1908-02 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Messages from the Missions," *Improvement Era* 11, no. 4 (February 1908): 308.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1104unse 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: improvementera1104unse start_page: 308 end_page: 308 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1908-02) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1104unse publication_year: 1908 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 1908, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Messages from the Missions MESSAGES FROM THE MISSIONS. A new edition of the French Book of Mormon, the second, has been issued by President Serge F. Ballif , of the Swiss and German mission, under direction of the First Presidency of the Church. This edition of 10,000 will be used in the Frenchspeaking division of the Netherlands- Belgium mission. Only one edition of the French Book of Mormon has heretofore been printed; that published by the late President John Taylor, in Paris, in 1852. President R.'K. Hardy, of the New Zealand mission, writes from Auckland, November 22: ' 'The manual has supplied a much felt want. It will be studied with much pleasure and profit, not only by elders and Saints but by those not of our faith, and also those who are investigating the gospel. The subject matter is so clearly and plainly presented in this manual that we feel it will be a means of doing a great missionary work in our island. We have recently organized a Mutual Improvement Association in Auckland, which from the commencement has met with marked success; our average attendance is more than was first expected. The pleasing feature to us is the fact that most of the members of this organization are not members of the Church, but we trust this will aid in their being converted."