---
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: 3
published: 1899-01
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: "Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, \"Our Work: Get More Manuals,\" *Improvement Era* 2, no. 3 (January 1899): 232."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera23unse
  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: improvementera23unse
start_page: 232
end_page: 232
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1899-01)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera23unse
  publication_year: 1899
  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 1899, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Our Work: Get More Manuals

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OUR WORK,
GET MORE MANUALS.
Some of our M. I. A. missionaries report that in conducting the
course of study provided for in the M. I. A. manual for 1898 there is a
wonderful dearth of manuals. Many of the members of the associations
have failed to supply themselves with this necessary text book for our
work this year; for instance, it is said that in some cases in an enrolled
membership of sixty or seventy members, and an attendance of thirty
or forty or fifty, there will perhaps be only a dozen, or even less than a
dozen, members who have manuals ! That is a deplorable, not to say
ridiculous, condition. Men cannot work without tools, and members of
the associations cannot perform the work outlined by the General Board
for the associations this year without the manual. And when it is
remembered that the price of that text book is but twenty-five cents, it
is rather a reproach to our young men when they fail to supply themselves with it. The officers of the associations should take up this matter and urge our young men not only to purchase the manual but to
study it. The price is within the reach of all and there is no reason why
every member of the associations should not furnish himself with this
necessary text book.
To facilitate the matter of getting the manuals into the hands of
the members, we remind the presidents and other officers of the fact that
we are willing to send them any number of manuals that they think
their association will purchase, but said officers must become responsible
for the payment of the same. A large edition was published and we
shall be able to supply orders promptly from the Era office.
THE USE OP MISSIONARY ERAS.
A number of requests have come to the Bra office from our missionary Elders abroad, asking that copies of the Era published prior to