---
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: 8
number: 4
published: 1905-02
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* 8, no. 4 (February 1905).
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0804unse
  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: improvementera0804unse
curator_note: Cover, masthead, and contents retained. The masthead identifies volume 8, number 4, dated February 1905. Unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted; this issue’s printed editorial pages 241–320 are imported as separate source-native records.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1905-02)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0804unse
  publication_year: 1905
  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 1905, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# *Improvement Era*, February 1905

The retained masthead identifies this as volume VIII, number 4, *Improvement Era*, organ of the Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, published by the General Board.

## Contents

- Hammurabi’s Code of Laws, 241
- A Word of Kindness, 247
- In the Third Watch of the Night, 248
- The Aeolian Harp, 256
- A Lay Sermon, 258
- Assurance, 262
- A Mother’s Letters to Her Missionary Son. I—An Unposted Letter, 263
- There Is No Unbelief, 270
- Charity, 271
- Jeanne d’Arc, 275
- Utah’s Natural Bridges, 276
- Life’s Mirror, 278
- Wit and Humor in the Mission Field, 279
- Topics of the Moment, 281
- The Holy Scriptures, the Inspirer of Youth and Refiner of Character, 289
- Problems for Parents, 294
- Manliness, 296
- Editor’s Table, 299
- Religion Classes and School Buildings, 302
- Revolution in Russia, 304
- Notes, 305
- In Lighter Mood, 306
- Our Work: Co-operation of Parents in Home Preparation, 307
- On Selection of Officers, 312
- Events of the Month, 313