---
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: 4
published: 1898-02
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. 4 (February 1898).
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera14unse
  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: improvementera14unse
curator_note: Cover, masthead, and table of contents retained. Front advertising leaves 2–6 and the back advertising leaves after printed page 304 are intentionally omitted; no advertising text is imported.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1898-02)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera14unse
  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*, February 1898

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

## Contents

- The Thief on the Cross — George Reynolds, 225–229
- Disdain Returned — Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, 230
- Statehood and How It Was Achieved, Concluded — William H. King, 231–235
- Forgive — Arthur Brooke, 236
- England and Germany — John M. Tanner, 237–243
- Young Characters in History — Willard Done, 244–250
- To President Wilford Woodruff — Sarah E. Pearson, 251
- Bible Studies, IV — Nephi L. Morris, 252–257
- Religious Faiths, IV: The Polity of the Presbyterian Church — N. E. Clemenson, 258–268
- Purpose in Fiction — Nephi Anderson, 269–271
- A Sufficient Answer to Josephites — B. H. Roberts, 272–281
- Symposium of Best Thought — Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, 282–285
- Ancient Tales—Peter Klaus: A German Legend — Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, 286–288
- Editor’s Table: On the Acceptance or Rejection of Testimony — Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, 289–290
- Editor’s Table: The Era’s First Enterprise — Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, 291–292
- Editor’s Table: The Situation in the Far East — Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, 293–294
- Our Work: M. I. Missionary Work — Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, 295–298
- Our Work: A Word with Officers — Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, 299
- Our Work: The General Secretary’s Request — Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, 300
- Events of the Month — Thomas Hull, 301–304