---
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: 5
published: 1905-03
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. 5 (March 1905).
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0805unse
  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: improvementera0805unse
curator_note: Cover, masthead, and contents retained. The masthead identifies volume 8, number 5, dated March 1905. Unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted; this issue’s printed editorial pages 321–400 are imported as separate source-native records.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1905-03)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0805unse
  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*, March 1905

The retained masthead identifies this as volume VIII, number 5, *Improvement Era*, organ of the Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, published by the General Board.

## Contents

- Development of the Child. I, 321
- A Prayer, 336
- Is There Power in Prayer?, 337
- Man Proposes: A Story, 341
- Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother, 349
- Some Sayings, 350
- A Mother’s Letters to Her Missionary Son. II—Letter Posted to Chicago, 352
- Relation of Inspiration and Revelation to Church Government, 358
- Topics of the Moment, 371
- Bird Time, 378
- Ruins of Central America, 381
- Editor’s Table, 385
- Notes, 389
- In Lighter Mood, 390
- Our Work, 391
- Events of the Month, 392