--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Unknown collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 28 number: 12 published: 1925-10 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: "Unknown, “A Prophecy and Its Fulfilment,” *Improvement Era* 28, no. 12 (October 1925): 1147–1148." source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera28012unse 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: improvementera28012unse start_page: 1147 end_page: 1148 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1925-10) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera28012unse publication_year: 1925 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 1925, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # A Prophecy and Its Fulfilment A PROPHECY AND ITS FULFILMENT 1147 Palmer, and they moved to Bear Lake county, Idaho, where she lived to the age of 82 years, a faithful Latter-day Saint to the last. Through this healing and baptism, President Kimball is responsi- ble for bringing many hundreds into the Church; because in her one child, myself, the Church has over a hundred members, for I have eleven children, sixty-four grandchildren, and thrity-two great-grand- children." See also Life of Heber C. Kimball, chapter 18, p. 149. S afford, Arizona. MOSES CURTIS' TRUE BEAR STORY By S. C. Richardson Some time ago I gave the story of a voice directing Grand-pa Curtis to the lost children in Provo. Two other times in his life he had been spoken to. but so long before that it was like a new ex- perience. Those who were present have long since gone to the other side, but there are manv who have heard the accounts from him, his wife, and from neighbors who were near, and none who knew Grand-father Curtis doubt them. One day he went into a blacksmith shop where several men were gathered around one who was fixing an old muzzle-loading rifle. As he stepped into the circle he was in front of the muzzle, and a voice said, "Get away from there." He looked around to see who spoke, and stepped aside an instant before the gun went off. A few seconds more and he would have been shot fbiojgh the chest. The first time he heard the voice was when there was so much whipping, driving, and persecution around Nauvoo. Moses was work- ing quite a distance from home, and to go and come, had choice of two ways, around the road, or a nearer way across, through some timber. Generally he went the "cross-cut," but one evening as he started for the short path, a voice said, "Don't go that way." As in the later instance, he looked to see who spoke, but no one was near. He thought he was mistaken and started again. "Don't go that way," the voice repeated, and he quickly started for the road. He reached home without the least idea why he should come that way, but soon learned that several men had waited for hours in the woods to catch and whip him. After he came to Utah and he was living in "Pond-town," he and his brother, Lyman, were up Loafer Canyon getting tan-bark. A bear became a nuisance, getting into their food. At last their ingenuity conceived a plan to get rid of him. Three logs were brought and lad side by side near their camp. George Curtis' wife, Emma, had made some cheese. One walked a long way and back for a piece of that cheese. The middle log was raised, a monster figure 4 put under it and baited with the cheese in a sack tied firmly to the point. The bear 1148 IMPROVEMENT ERA smelled it, went in, pulled and was caught. But so terrific were his struggles that he was about to get out from under the log. Grandpa Moses Curtis ran and caught him by the hind leg, yelling for Lyman to bring the axe. A few blows of that weapon quieted him and though they felt there was no great fame attached to it, these many years after, we have several men here in the Gila Valley who ate a piece of the bear, and will still describe his struggles, and those of Moses and Lyman. Thatcher, Arizona. A SERMONETTE To the Student Body of the Brigham Young University By President-Emeritus George H. Brimhall I>-xt: "Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness; for they shall be filled." Did you ever feel hungry for goodness, Craving the Millennium here? Have you yearned to be acting in kindness Above hope of reward or a fear? Have you burned with a thirst to be honest Just for pure Honesty's sake? Have you longed for the joy that is present When to give is better than take? If you have, there is started within you The Kingdom for Service to build; Where the hunger and thirst will continue Your soul be eternally filled. Yea, filled with the thrill of desiring To be doing whatever you should; Filled with the power of loving The good and of doing the good. Being thrilled with such thrill is fulfiling The promise Christ made on the Mount; It is living the life most worth living And counting for most you can count. Provo, Utah.