---
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: 23
number: 6
published: 1920-04
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Notice to M. I. A. Joint Classes," *Improvement Era* 23, no. 6 (April 1920): 576.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2306unse
  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: improvementera2306unse
start_page: 576
end_page: 576
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1920-04)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2306unse
  publication_year: 1920
  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 1920, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Notice to M. I. A. Joint Classes

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Notice to M. I. A. Joint Classes. These lessons will be continued in the Era,
 until the  series of seven are printed.   Following are the titles of the remaining
                                             —
 four: 4. Joseph Smith, a Candidate His Platform. 5. Joseph Smith, a Nationalist.
 6. Joseph Smith, a Practical Sociologist. 7. Joseph Smith, a Patriot.

      Elder A. Earl Worlton, writing from Albany, New York, recently, says:               "All
 who read the Era in this section of the country think it a most excellent magazine
 for the furtherance of truth."

     Frank O. Jones, Secretary of the Netherlands mission, writing from Rotterdam,
 Holland, November 25, says:      "We appreciate the Era very highly. It is full of
 snappy articles, easily understood, not monotonous and long-drawn, interesting and
 extremely beneficial to all who read them, old and young alike. Afte» reading the
 Era, we distribute the magazine among those of our Dutch friends who understand
 the English language. They are quite as anxious as the elders are to get them. We
 wish the Era success.

                 Improvement Era, April, 1920
                                  Two Dollars per Annum
Entered at the Post Office, Salt Lake City, Utah, as second class matter
Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103, Act of
                            October 3, 1917, authorized on July 2, 1918

                 Address, Room 406 Church Office Building, Salt Lake City, Utah

      Heber J. Grant,                            Edward H. Anderson, Business Mgr.
      Edward H. Anderson, tdltors                Moroni Snow, Assistant

                                         CONTENTS
The Sacred Grove in Summer                                                        Frontispiece
The Divine Answer. A Poem                                         Edward H. Anderson 467
The Messenger of Morn. A Poem                                        Orson F. Whitney 469
"A Marvelous Work and a Wonder"                                  Prest. Heber J. Grant 472
Joseph Smith's First Vision and Scripture Prom-
      ises.   Illustrated                                      Prest.    Anthon H. Lund 475
The Edict      of a   Century                                Prest. Cliarles   W. Penrose 484
Account of Joseph's First Vision                                            J. M. Sjodahl 488

Joseph the Prophet                                              Judge Charles H. Hart 491
Origin of the First Vision                                 Elder Joseph Fielding Smith 496
Former Home of Joseph Smith, in Kirtland, Ohio                       ,                    504
Joseph Smith Monument, Sharon, Vermont                                                    505
The Effect of Revelation on Man's Creed                        Elder David O. McKay 506
A Theophany Resplendent                                          Dr. James E. Talmage 514
The Joseph Smith Home, Near Palmyra, N. Y                                           _     516
The Church Will Prevail                                          Osborne J. P. Widtsoe 517
Portrait of Joseph Smith, the Prophet                                                     526
Joseph Smith the Modern American Prophet                                   B. H. Roberts 526
The   Vision.     A Cantata                                                Evan Stephens 532
Influences of the Gospel for         Good Through the
      Doctrine of the Gathering                                Elder Richard R. Lyman 539
The Vision Beautiful                                                     Susa Young Gates 542
Some Effects of the Gospel on Human Lives                         Dr. John A. Widtsoe 544
The Church in the Mission Field                                           Andrew Jenson 549
Joseph Smith. An Oration                                                    Nenhi Jenson 554
Joserh Cmith as r. Statesman.        I-III                                                560