---
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: 13
number: 4
published: 1910-02
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Men and Missions," *Improvement Era* 13, no. 4 (February 1910): 369.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1304unse
  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: improvementera1304unse
start_page: 369
end_page: 369
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1910-02)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1304unse
  publication_year: 1910
  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 1910, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Men and Missions


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EDITOR'S TABLE.                                       369

general public with something to while          away a few idle hours, a means
of amusement, something to be            read and soon forgotten: but with the
idea of giving    them a periodical      of permanent usefulness:    that will not
only entertain, but also instruct and aid in the gathering of the records
of their dead, so that they can prepare themselves in the
'
'most glo-
rious of all subjects," the work for the dead.

Family records and genealogies, historical information, biog-
raphies, manuscripts, old documents and publication, are solicited,
and will appear in the magazine, or be filed with the society. This
is a splendid aim,  and the Era welcomes the new publication,
with a recommendation to           all   who are interested in this laudable
work to support it with their subscriptions, as well as with valu-
able information.  Price $1.50 per annum.    JosephF. Smith, Jr.,
manager, Salt Lake City, Utah.

"Men and Missions."

This is a book of 215 pages published by the Sunday School
Times       Company,    1831    Walnut        St.,   Philadelphia,        Pa.,   and
written by Mr. William T.          Ellis,    a secular journalist,        who has
looked into      the entire missionary enterprise, both as a principle
and   in    practical operation.         His investigations led him entirely
around the world, and over the main mission fields.                 He critically
examined every aspect of the work, and in his book has sought to
give an unbiased and fair judgment upon the missionary and his
labors, telling the truth as he discovered           it.   He gives, besides, a
vivid interpretation of present world-currents,              and especially the
marvelous awaking of the sleeping Oriental nations from the torpor
of ages, to the morning sunlight of the gospel.     From the sleep
of millenniums,     new Korea, new Japan, new China, new India, new
Turkey, new Persia, with their uncounted millions, are reaching
out groping hands for some            new sovereign specific that will bring
peace to the hearts of their aspiring, dissatisfied people.                  Every
fibre of their being,   he points out, is a-tingle with new life:

All   these varied signs of the whole world's awaking which chord so
signally with the enlarging vision of the men of the Christian              Church,
betoken a timeliness which argues a sovereign design.           Reasoning from