---
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: 3
number: 12
published: 1900-10
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* 3, no. 12 (October 1900).
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera312unse
  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: improvementera312unse
curator_note: Retains the bibliographic cover, masthead, and contents. Omits advertising leaves 2–14 before the editorial pagination and 103–112 after it under the Improvement Era advertisement policy. The volume-three prospectus and cumulative index on leaves 95–102 are volume-level matter rather than October issue contents and are not included in this dated-issue import.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1900-10)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera312unse
  publication_year: 1900
  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 1900, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Cover, Masthead, and Contents

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*Improvement Era*. Volume 3, no. 12. October 1900. Organ of Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations; published by the General Board, Salt Lake City.

## Contents

- Spencer Clawson, “The Pioneer Monument,” 881.
- Heber J. Grant, “Learning to Sing,” 886.
- J. M. Lauritzen, “Whisperings of Nature,” 895.
- Sara Whalen, “Helen Keller,” 896.
- Leslie’s Weekly, “Always Tell Mother,” 899.
- John V. Bluth, “The Salmon River Mission II,” 900.
- J. H. Ward, “Is It the Dawn of the Millennium?,” 914.
- Richard W. Young, “The Point of View,” 918.
- Lydia D. Alder, ““Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods Before Me.”,” 919.
- H. W. Naisbitt, “Friendship, Love and Truth,” 926.
- J. M. Tanner, “The Revolution in China III,” 927.
- L. L. Greene Richards, “Light, Truth and Love,” 932.
- Nephi Anderson, “Are We Americans?,” 933.
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Editor’s Table,” 937.
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Notes,” 949.
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “In Lighter Mood,” 951.
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Our Work: Local Missionary Work,” 952.
- Thomas Hull, “Events of the Month,” 957.