--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Richards, George F. collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 21 number: 2 published: 1917-12 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'George F. Richards, "A Word from President George F. Richards," *Improvement Era* 21, no. 2 (December 1917): 171.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2102unse 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: improvementera2102unse start_page: 171 end_page: 171 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1917-12) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2102unse publication_year: 1917 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 1917, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # A Word from President George F. Richards A Word from President George F. Richards Readers of the Era will be delighted to peruse the following message from President George F. Richards, of the European Mission, 295 Edge Lane, Liverpool. It is dated October 24 and addressed to Elder Junius F. Wells, in answer to a letter which he sent recently to President Richards: "A few lines from you, my dear brother, direct my thoughts homeward, and I am reminded that a commotion is going on in my native land of America, reaching even to the homes of the Saints in the valleys of the Rocky Mountains. This cruel war into which our Nation is being initiated at such a break-neck speed, must be prosecuted to a successful termination for the pro-