---
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: 2
number: 1
published: 1898-11
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* 2, no. 1 (November 1898).
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera21unse
  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: improvementera21unse
curator_note: Retains bibliographic cover, masthead, and contents. Omits advertising leaves before and after the printed editorial pages under the Improvement Era policy.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1898-11)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera21unse
  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.
---

# Cover, Masthead, and Contents

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*Improvement Era*. Volume 2, no. 1. November 1898. Organ of Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations; published by the General Board, Salt Lake City.

## Contents

- An Unpublished Letter on the Tennessee Massacre: A Thrilling Narrative, 1.
- The Personality of God, 15.
- Creation, 18.
- The Building of a Man, 21.
- Friendship, Love, and Truth, 27.
- Oriental Religious Faiths, I: Historical Judaism, 28.
- Philosophy of Inspiration, Free Agency, and Revelation, 38.
- Across the Pacific, 44.
- Progress of the War Between Spain and the United States of America, 54.
- Editor’s Table: Long Live the Prophet, 67.
- Notes, 72.
- In Lighter Mood, 75.
- Our Work: A Correspondence Bureau Proposed, 76.
- Events of the Month, 79.