--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Tanner, Nancy Byrd collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 17 number: 6 published: 1914-04 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Nancy Byrd Tanner, "Now Is Christ Risen. A Poem," *Improvement Era* 17, no. 6 (April 1914): 507.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera176unse 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: improvementera176unse start_page: 507 end_page: 507 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1914-04) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera176unse publication_year: 1914 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 1914, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Now Is Christ Risen. A Poem A Jaunt in South Africa BY FRANK J. HEWLETT, FORMERLY PRESIDENT OF THE SOUTH AF- RICAN MISSION Kimberley sprang up, mushroom-like, on the discovery of diamonds, in 1867. Later, further discoveries were made on the farm of a Dutchman named De Beer, now the location of the famous De Beer and Kimberley mines. Originally a mining settlement, the streets have been laid out in the fashion of a calf trail. One can live a month in Kimberley, then, as in Boston, have LATTER-DAY SAINT MISSIONARIES ON THE STEPS OF THE MONUMENT ERECTED IN HONOR OF THE HEROES OF THE KIMBERLEY SIEGE, BRITISH-BOER WAR to rely on the instructions of a policeman to find one's lodge. During recent years much has been done to beautify the wealthy town. There are now many excellent hotels, and numerous fine public buildings, including a handsome theater. The town is lighted by electricity, and electric cars run out to the beautiful suberbs of Beaconsfield, Kenilworth and Alexander Fontein. Memories of the war are still vivid there. The siege of Kimberley, which lasted from October, 1899, to February, 1900, does not compare in point of interest with that of Ladysmith, but the citizens bore themselves valiantly through all the one hundred and twenty days of bombardment. Manv a mine manager and shop-keeper