---
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: 3
published: 1898-01
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, *Improvement Era* 1, no. 3 (January 1898).
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera13unse
  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: improvementera13unse
curator_note: Cover, masthead, and table of contents retained. Front advertising leaves 2–6 and the back advertising leaves after printed page 224 are intentionally omitted; no advertising text is imported.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1898-01)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera13unse
  publication_year: 1898
  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 1898, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# *Improvement Era*, January 1898

Organ of Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations. Published monthly by the General Board, Salt Lake City.

## Contents

- Ingersoll’s “Best Argument Ever Advanced Against Christianity” — Charles W. Penrose, 145–164
- European Diplomacy — John M. Tanner, 165–170
- The New Year — The Casquet, 171
- Religious Faiths—III: The Doctrines and Claims of the Episcopal Church — J. B. Halsey, 172–184
- Time’s Song — Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, 185
- A Plea for Fiction — Nephi Anderson, 186–187
- The Exchange — S. T. Coleridge, 188
- Bible Studies, III — Nephi L. Morris, 189–195
- Young Characters in History — Willard Done, 196–200
- Statehood and How It Was Achieved — William H. King, 201–203
- Editor’s Table: The Success of the Era — Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, 204–205
- Editor’s Table: Free Eras for Missionaries — Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, 206
- Editor’s Table: Best Thought Symposium — Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, 207
- Editor’s Table: Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream — Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, 208–211
- Editor’s Table: Notes on the President’s Message — Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, 212–216
- Our Work: Napoleon on the Character of Christ — Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, 217
- Our Work: Uses of the Improvement Fund — Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, 218–219
- Our Work: M. I. A. Mission Work — Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, 220
- Events of the Month — Thomas Hull, 221–224