---
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: 1
number: 2
published: 1897-12
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Editor’s Table: Missionary Rate for the Era," *Improvement Era* 1, no. 2 (December 1897): 125.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera12unse
  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: improvementera12unse
start_page: 125
end_page: 125
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1897-12)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera12unse
  publication_year: 1897
  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 1897, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Editor’s Table: Missionary Rate for the Era

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EDITOR'S TABLE. 125

the result of this effort will be the permanent enlargement of the Era.

MISSIONARY RATE FOR THE ERA.

The management have decided to make a missionary rate for the Era of one dollar per annum.

Today there are between twelve and fourteen hundred elders in various missionary fields, the greater number of whom are members of mutual improvement associations. We desire to keep them in touch with the trend of improvement work at home, and also render them assistance in expounding the gospel to the people among whom they labor. Both of these objects can be accomplished by placing the Era at a price within the reach of the elders on missions and their friends ; and as in every number there will be expositions of one or more doctrines of our faith, they cannot well afford to do without it.

From the commencement it has been announced that the Era would be an advocate and defender of the faith, and we desire that it should enter upon this part of its mission at once, and be given as wide a circulation as possible. We therefore say to our brethren abroad, and those laboring in the various states of the American union, that if they will send us their address and one dollar, the Era will be sent to them for one year. We say the same to the friends of our missionaries who may desire to aid them in spreading abroad a knowledge of God's great latter-day work. Send us the address of your missionary friends, with one dollar, and we will send them the Era for a year. Or if you have friends abroad, to whom you desire to send the Era, we will send it on the same terms as to the missionaries. Here is an opportunity for hundreds of saints to aid in the work of spreading abroad a knowledge of the gospel. Will they avail themselves of it? The Era upon these terms is very far below the cost of its production, but in the interest of the members of improvement associations absent on missions, and out of a desire to extend the usefulness of the im-