--- 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: 12 number: 10 published: 1909-08 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* 12, no. 10 (August 1909): 835–836.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera12010unse 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: improvementera12010unse start_page: 835 end_page: 836 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1909-08) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera12010unse publication_year: 1909 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 1909, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Messages from the Missions EDITOR'S TABLE. 835 ing or for use in extra illustrating, at a price of $1 each. National Americana Society, No. 154 East 23rd Street, New York City. New York. MESSAGES FROM THE MISSIONS. Elder Austin Houtz, writing from Queenstown, Cape Colony, South Africa, says: "There is a small branch of the Church in this place, but considering that it has only been thirteen months since the elders first came here, the success has been a little above the average. There are now fifteen members, besides many friends. The meetings are well attended. The Sunday School which was organ- ized in January has an enrollment of 29. Elders C. Perry Rockwood, and S. N. Alger, Jr. , introduced the work here. Elder S. Norman Lee, who arrived in Liverpool on the steamship Dominion, May 27, 1909, has been appointed to succeed Elder William A. Morton as associate editor of the Millennial Star. Elder Lee was formerly editor of the Box Elder News, at Biigham City, and has been prominent in the different organizations of that place. He has filled one mission before in Europe, laboring for a full term in Sweden, and his active ministry and experience in business and literary affairs eminently fit him for the position to which he has been called. Elder Nephi Anderson has been called to succeed Elder B. F. Cummings as editor of Liahona The Elders' Journal, and left for Independence, Missouri, about July 22. Elder Anderson has filled one mission in Norway and one in Eng- land, which latter place he edited the Millennial Star. in He is the author of several well known works, among them Added Upon, and The Castle Builder. Through his experience, his labors, and his knowledge of the gospel, he is specially fitted for the responsible calling to which he has been chosen. We wish him success and prosperity in his new field of labor. Elder D. H. Fowler has had editorial charge of Liahona, in the meantime, but arrived in Salt Lake July 15, and gave the Era a pleasant call. Elder George B.Mowry, secretary of the Leeds Conference, writing from Brad- ford, June 21, says: "The work of the Lord is in a growing and flourishing condition here, and I am glad to know that the Lord has called me to labor in one of the best opportunities and largest conferences in the British Mission. There are wonderful afforded here for doing much good, and I pray that I may be aided by my Heavenly I have had my Father to take advantage of them. Since entering the mission field of God, and I feol eyes opened to much of the grandeur and beauty of the Church I have had who labored so hard to to thank with all my heart all the teachers that work. Among the best and assist me in obtaining knowledge for my missionary beauties of the gospel foremost places to gain a knowledge of the principles and School classes, and I feel to ask our are the Mutual Improvement and Sunday Heavenly Father to assist the Mutual and Sunday School workers in their labors to enlighten and elevate the souls of the young and rising generation." ELDERS OF THE LEEDS CONFERENCE. First row —John Hall, Nephi Gledhill, Joseph A. Kerr, James D. Allen, Harold J. Hyde, Joseph Condie. A. Fred Davis, Marion Lee, Moses D. Watterson, Nephi Hodgson, Thomas Alston. — Second row Albert J. Brewer, Silas Hinckley, William I. Croff, Walter A. Sells, F. Harold Chambers, George B. Mowry, Alfred C. Gunderson, John A. Harter, William G. Clark. Third row— F. D. Williams, Miles M. Batty, Ernest S. Horsley, Eliza Horsley, Charles W Penrose, Romania B. Penrose, Dale Cutler, Julius A. Rockwood, . Mrs. J. F. Cutler, J. F. Cutler. — Fourth row James H. Bradshaw, Bird L. Murphy, James E. Jack, A. Kelsey Chattfield, Morris R. Parry, B. Spence Young, Joseph F. Daybell. In Der Ster, the organ of the Netherlands-Belgium Mission, June 15, 1909, Elder Sylvester Q. Cannon bids farewell to the Saints as president of that mission. He took charge on the 19th of May, 1907; and has now been released by the First Presidency to return home to take up his labors as counselor to the president of the Pioneer stake of Zion, Under his direction the mission has prospered exceed- ingly, eleven new fields having be»n opened and 1,015,000 tracts distributed and many other publications circulated, besides the regular issues of the mission paper. The Book of Mormon has b^en published in Dutch, and also the first edition of the Doctrine and Covenants in that language, together with a new edition of the hymn book both in French and Dutch. The Church, also, has acquired the Excelsior Building in its entirety, in which the mission hall had previously been located for some time. Elder James H. Walker succeeds Elder Cannon temporarily as presi- dent of the mission until the arrival of Elder B. G. Thatcher, of Logan, who has been appointed to the position.