---
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: 15
number: 4
published: 1912-02
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "The Gate City Quartet," *Improvement Era* 15, no. 4 (February 1912): 366.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1504unse
  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: improvementera1504unse
start_page: 366
end_page: 366
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1912-02)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1504unse
  publication_year: 1912
  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 1912, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# The Gate City Quartet

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Elder H. M. Whitaker, president of the Georgia conference, gives
an account of the conference just convened at Atlanta. Elder Heber
J. Grant, of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles, with Mission President
Charles A. Callis, were in attendance. Elder Grant had the privilege
 of speaking in the First
TJniversalist Church, in
Atlanta, by the minister's invitation. The
Latter-day Saints as a
body attended the services. "Our hearts beat
with gratitude as we
listened Elder
 to
Grant's inspired words,
 we were
realizing that
under the voice of an
apostle of Jesus Christ.
By the request of the
minister, Elder Grant spoke on the subject, Why I am a "Mormon," and
if ever a man spoke with the force and power of conviction, Elder
Grant did, at that time. At the close of the sermon, the pastor of the
church told his audience that for once in his life he had heard a man
speak who thoroughly believed every word he uttered, and he wished
that the members of his church would partake of the inspiration." The
elders in the photo are, left to right: Robert H. Wallace, Rexburg,
Idaho; Clarence Hart, Menan, Idaho; Milton H. Whitaker, Kanosh,
Utah; Willard C. Stolworthy, Kirtland, New Mexico. They compose
what has been christened the "Gate City Quartet."