---
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: 5
number: 11
published: 1902-09
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Cover, Masthead, and Table of Contents," *Improvement Era* 5, no. 11 (September 1902).
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0511unse
  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: improvementera0511unse
curator_note: The cover, masthead, and contents are retained. Advertising leaves before and after the editorial pagination are intentionally omitted.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1902-09)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0511unse
  publication_year: 1902
  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 1902, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Cover, Masthead, and Table of Contents

Vol. V.                         The Glory of God is Intelligence.                             No.    II.

       IMPROVEMENT
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Organ of Young Men's Mutual Improvement                                            Associations.

                  PUBLISHED BY THE GENERAL. BOARD.
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 Entered at the **ost Office. Salt            I   ake City, Utah, as Second Class Matter.

                       SEPTEMBER, 10O2.
                                  TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Bureau of Information Building                                                           Frontispiece
History of the Prophet Joseph                                  Lucy Smith                           817
The Castle Builder. Part II, IX                               Nephi Anderson                        843
Reply to Roberts' View of Deity.                        II    Eev. C. Van Der Dcnckt                856
Evening Song.      A Poem                                     Mathonihah Thomas                     867
Bishop Edward Hunter. IV                                      Oscar F. Hunter                       868
Our Father Adam                                               Charles      W. Penrose               873
Rest. A Poem                                                  James H. Martineau                    880
How it is Done in Japan                                       Alma 0. Taylor                        881
Jesus Christ: the Revelation of God                           B. H. Roberts                         886
The Life Worth Living                    JohnH. Small                                               890
£ome Leading Events in the Current Story
    of the World   — Great Judges— Marriage
    Statistics— England's Change Prime             in
    Ministers —Personal Rights Decision     Dr.                    J.   M. Tanner                   891
Editor's Table —Superstitious Practices                       President Joseph F. Smith             896
    Bureau of Information and Church Litera-
    ture                                                                                            899
    Book Mention                                                                                    901
Our Work  — Seventh Annual Conference of
    the M. LA — Annual Conventions                                                                  903
Events of thb Month                                           Thomas Hull                           909

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