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Excerpt from The Improvement Era, Vol. 42: August, 1939 Some of you have been in the Alps and scanned those wonderful peaks, and there you experienced hour after hour and perhaps day after day what it means to acquire more extended horizons. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten...

Excerpt from The Improvement Era, Vol. 36: June, 1933 But in order to prepare you for the treat awaiting you, _ permit me, for a short while, to be your guide' by proxy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the wor...

Excerpt from Improvement Era, Vol. 31: February, 1928 We find that the ancient languages of our family, Sanskrit, Zend, etc., abound in very long words, the further back we go, the greater the number of sesquipedalia. We have seen also how the current theory, according to which every language started with monosyllable roots, fails at every point to account for actual facts and breaks down before the established truths of linguistic history. -...

Excerpt from Improvement Era, Vol. 32: February, 1929 Dr. F. S. Harris' short article on Air is the second of a series in which some of the common things will be treated. Dr. Harris is presenting facts With which all should be acquainted, and is doing it so clearly that none should have difficulty in understanding them. Elder Claude Cornwall, a member of the M. I. A. General Board, who is recreation director of the United States Lines, has m...

Excerpt from The Improvement Era, Vol. 40: January, 1937 Next morning when each man picked his horse for the day, Poke came first among the lions for their share and threw his rope on the pinto. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digi...

Excerpt from Improvement Era, Vol. 28: December, 1924 We had heard so much of the temple and its surroundings that we were anticipating the unusual beauties of. This sacred spot, but I think no member of the party anticipated the thrill that came at the Pali. The Pali is the pass or summit between Honolulu and Laie. We were told that Pali means the god of wind. If so this is an appropriate name, for the wind at the top of this precipice, twel...

Excerpt from The Improvement Era, Vol. 39: November, 1936 That night, at Rotterdam, Brother Grant said: Alex, what was the matter with the first verse? It didn't seem to go smoothly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally recons...

Excerpt from The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 68: September 20, 1906 Paul is speaking of the time when our knowledge, which is necessarily partial, will disappear in a fuller knowledge. But our knowledge in this world and the present time must always be partial: hence, Paul is probably referring to the ages to come and to the future life. When prophecy shall cease, the super-natural element be swallowed up in a larger world of inf...

Excerpt from The Improvement Era: September, 1931, Vol. 34-42 The water that passes into the river is readily made safe by the dilutions brought about by the river water, the settling out pro cess, the rapid utilization of the organic water by the bacteria, and the germicidal effect of the sun. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a r...

Excerpt from The Improvement Era: Vol. 34-42, November, 1930Correct, ' snapped the voice over the wire. 'and, say, who is this talking?' The voice was a little more human.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, pr...

Excerpt from The Improvement Era: Vol. 34-42, June, 1931 I am harrassed with doubts. Like Mark Twain's opinion of his guide at the home of Columbus. As to. The truthfulness of any such statements. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to di...

Excerpt from Improvement Era, Vol. 32: September, 1929 II went in and got him and took them both down to my home. About a mile and a half south of Brigham City. We went into the house. My wife and children were there. After standing at Ella's bedside for a minute or two, President Snow asked if we had any consecrated oil in the house. I was greatly surprised, but told him yes and got it for him. He handed the bottle of Oil to Brother Clawson ...

Excerpt from Improvement Era, Vol. 32: August, 1929Happy the night, I thought as I rolled out of bed. - happier the day! Ray said as he got ready for breakfast.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving th...

Excerpt from Improvement Era, Vol. 27: Organ of the Priesthood Quorums, the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations and the Schools of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, December, 1923 But 10, the Star! And wise men from the gates of morning dew! And then I gazed into the liquid eyes of Mary's Child. The Cherub of the Haloed Head looked in my face and smiled, And all my bitter hate was changed to loving sympathy, My enemies...

Excerpt from The Improvement Era, Vol. 34: August, 1931 The dominant quality in Evan Stephens' art as in the man himself is sincerity. He was genuine in all that he did. Truth was his foun dation and was manifest in his entire structure. Rugged honesty shone from his countenance, the simplicity of greatness was stamped upon him. To know the depths of his soul is to know the truths of the Gospel of Christ. He ac cepted those truths with all hi...

Excerpt from The Improvement Era, Vol. 43: September, 1940 And God saw the light, it was good. And God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical ...

Excerpt from The Improvement Era, Vol. 39: October, 1936 Our legislature has enacted a law prohibiting the killing of gulls, and the birds are so tame they come into our fields, and follow the plow~ man, to feast on the worms that are uncovered in his furrow. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historic...

Excerpt from The Improvement Era, Vol. 41: March, 1938 In a series of over cases of acute appendicitis studied by the Philadelphia Health Department, deaths were just twice as frequent in cases given one laxative, and six times as frequent in cases. In which more than one laxative was iven as compared with cases in W%ich no laxatives had been used. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books...

Excerpt from The Improvement Era, Vol. 6: Organ of the Priesthood Quorums, the Mutual Improvement Associations and the Department of Education, January, 1933 And the teacher pondered these words. And sétrow was in his heart, for his own learning touched not these things. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an import...

Excerpt from Improvement Era, Vol. 32: January, 1929 Blind and without hands, N. C. Hanks, a native of Utah, has made a national name for himself. His pluck is an inspiration to every person acquainted with what he has achieved in spite of such handicaps. In this issue Prof. H. R. Merrill gives a brief but interesting account of this remark able man's life. The article on Herbert Hoover, by Mrs Mary C. Kimball, commences in this number. The ...