--- 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, "Two Corrections," *Improvement Era* 15, no. 4 (February 1912): 374.' 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: 374 end_page: 374 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. --- # Two Corrections Two Corrections Of course, most people have read of the ancient calf and the faithfulness with which generations of men followed and built in and beside his devious path. That such things are still done was shown in the January issue of the Era, in the illustrations to the article, "Tour of the Tabernacle Choir," page 240, where the associate editor fell in line with the photographer of the sacred grove, and said it was "where Joseph Smith held communion with the angel." Now everybody knows that it was here that Joseph held communion with the Father and the Son, and it should have been so stated, regardless of the photographer's dictum. Again, on page 242, the old home of the Prophet is shown, "where the angel visited him and a part of the Book of Mormon was translated." Now, the fact is that Alvin Smith died in November, 1824, and the house was not built until after his death, while the angel was made in 1823, when Joseph lived in a little visit of the house a very short distance from the building here shown, and which is now obliterated. In this instance, we followed the statements made to visitors, including members of the Tabernacle choir. Again the calf-path. It remains only to be said, in addition, that there is no historical evidence to prove that any part of the Book of Mormon was ever translated in Palmyra, that being principally done in Pennsylvania, and in Fayette, Seneca county, New York.