---
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: 4
number: 9
published: 1901-07
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* 4, no. 9 (July 1901).
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0409unse
  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: improvementera0409unse
curator_note: Retains bibliographic cover, masthead, frontispiece notice, and contents. Omits advertising leaves 1–6 before the editorial pagination and leaves 89–94 after it; advertisements are omitted under the Improvement Era policy. Editorial pagination is source printed pages 641–720, on scan leaves 9–88.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1901-07)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0409unse
  publication_year: 1901
  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 1901, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Cover, Masthead, and Contents

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*Improvement Era*. Volume 4, no. 9. July 1901. Organ of Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations; published by the General Board, Salt Lake City.

## Contents

- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “The Governors of Utah, Eli H. Murray,” 641.
- Hull, Thomas, “Persecution the Heritage of the Saints,” 643.
- Alder, Lydia D., “Visit to the Countess of Warwick,” 653.
- Madsen, C. A., “Dispensation of Abraham,” 656.
- Kenner, S. A., “Some Astronomical Suggestions,” 658.
- Widtsoe, John A., “The Circulation of Matter in Nature,” 664.
- Crocheron, George W., “Spiritual Inertia,” 669.
- Davis, E. R., “Saved by the Gulls: A True Story of Early Utah: A Poem,” 671.
- Taylor, Alma O., “Speakers’ Contest: “My Spirit Shall Not Always Strive with Man”,” 676.
- Judd, Sidney A., “What the Saints Stand For: A Poem,” 682.
- Grant, Heber J., “Farewell Address of Apostle Heber J. Grant,” 683.
- Talmage, James E., “The Story of “Mormonism”—II,” 692.
- Tanner, J. M., “Some Leading Events in the Current Story of the World,” 699.
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Editor’s Table: Annual Conference; Questions and Answers,” 706.
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Notes,” 711.
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Our Work: The Annual Conference of the Mutual Improvement Associations,” 712.
- Hull, Thomas, “Events of the Month,” 717.