--- 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: 18 number: 12 published: 1915-10 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Adam-ondi-Ahman," *Improvement Era* 18, no. 12 (October 1915). source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera18012unse 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: improvementera18012unse rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1915-10) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera18012unse publication_year: 1915 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 1915, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Adam-ondi-Ahman "The spot where Adam had dwelt and where, ac- cording to Daniel the Prophet, the Ancient of Days shall sit." "The approach from Gallatin, Spring Hill, as Adam-Ondi-Ahman is locally called, is through a very attractive portion of Missouri. The Grand River moving southeastward to join the 'Mad Waters' traverses alternately in its devi- ous course meadow lands, strips of woods, and hilly country. Here we see the stream flash- ing brightly in the sunlight, as it ripples or falls over ledges of lime or sandstone, into which it has deeply cut; and there sleeping darkly in the shadow of primitive trees. Here the ground, covered with corn, slopes away with gentle undulations from its banks, and there again, we see the gray rocks, which over- hang the water, appear like square-laid ma- sonry. Intermingled oaks, elms, walnuts- and hickories give a leafy richness to each sylvan glade or extended landscape. Superficially, at least, the land surrounding 'the spot where Adam dwelt' is still beautiful." — A. L.