--- 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: 32 number: 11 published: 1929-09 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: "*Improvement Era* 32, no. 11 (September 1929). Salt Lake City: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, September 1929." source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera32011unse 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: improvementera32011unse curator_note: Internet Archive issue scan; advertising and unpaginated plates omitted. rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1929-09) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera32011unse publication_year: 1929 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 1929, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Improvement Era, September 1929 Improvement Era Vol. XXXII SEPTEMBER, 1929 No. 1 1 Raised from the Dead By LeRoi C. Snow, of the General Board of Y. M. M. I. A. INTRODUCTION: These are the people who participated most prominently in the following remarkable experience, now published for the first time: LORENZO SNOW was the fifth president of the Church. ELLA JENSEN, now Mrs. Henry Wight, living in Juniper, Idaho. She is fifty- eight years of age, the mother of eight children, six of whom are now living, and has six grandchildren. JACOB and ALTHEA JENSEN, Ella's parents, and her Uncle HANS JENSEN, all of Brigham City, Utah, and all now dead. RUDGER CLAWSON, of Salt Lake City and president of the Council of Twelve. LEAH REES, now Mrs. Wilford Recder. of Brigham City. MRS. HATTIE CRITCHLOW JENSEN, of Salt Lake City and Los Angeles, now on a visit_ to Palestine. ALPHONZO H. SNOW, of Salt Lake City, father of little ALPHIE, who died at six years of age. THIS story, true in every particular, shows the fulfillment of a prophecy made upon the head of Lorenzo Snow when he was a young man, twenty-two years of age. At that time he received a patriarchal blessing, under the hands of the Prophet's father, Joseph Smith, Sen. This blessing was given in the Kirtland Temple. Among other things were these promises: "Thou shalt become a mighty man. Thy faith shall increase and grow stronger until it shall become like Peter's — thou shalt restore the sick; the diseased shall send to thee their aprons and handkerchiefs and by thy touch their owners shall be made whole. The dead shall rise and come forth at thy bidding." For several long weeks Ella Jensen had lingered, almost be- tween life and death, with scarlet fever. In order to relieve the tired parents from their weary hours of loving care, kind neighbors took turns in staying at the Jensen home over night to help look after the sick girl. Among these thoughtful friends was Leah Recs (now Mrs. Wilford Reeder of Brigham City). She occasionally played the little, old-fashioned harmonium and sang for Ella's entertainment. This particular evening the sick girl became very much worse. Leah had come about eight o'clock to remain until about eight the next