---
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: 10
published: 1899-08
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. 10 (August 1899).
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera210unse
  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: improvementera210unse
curator_note: Retains bibliographic cover, masthead, and contents. Omits advertising leaves 2–6 before the editorial pagination and leaves 87–96 after it; advertisements are omitted under the Improvement Era policy.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1899-08)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera210unse
  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.
---

# Cover, Masthead, and Contents

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*Improvement Era*. Volume 2, no. 10. August 1899. Organ of Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations; published by the General Board, Salt Lake City.

## Contents

- Wolfe, Walter M., “Stumbling Blocks,” 721.
- Cowdery, Oliver, “Early Scenes and Incidents in the Church,” 729.
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Honor Thy Parents,” 734.
- Lee, W. O., “Samoa, the Eden of the Pacific,” 735.
- Naisbitt, Henry W., ““Polysophical” and “Mutual”,” 741.
- Cluff, W. W., “A Remarkable Case of Religious Devotion and Self-Sacrifice,” 748.
- Roberts, B. H., “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at the Parliament of Religions,” 750.
- Nicholson, John, “Origin and Nature of Man, from the Standpoint of Revelation and Reason,” 767.
- Ward, J. H., “The Tide of Life: A Plea for Mormon Civilization,” 775.
- Davy, “Influence of Religion on the Mind,” 779.
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Editor’s Table: Talks to the Young Men; Some Words on Tithing; The Place of Man in the Universe,” 781.
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Notes,” 788.
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Our Work: Annual Conference of the Mutual Improvement Associations; Manual for 1899–1900,” 789.
- Hull, Thomas, “Events of the Month,” 799.