---
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: 6
published: 1905-04
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. 6 (April 1905).
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0806unse
  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: improvementera0806unse
curator_note: Cover, masthead, and contents retained. The masthead identifies volume 8, number 6, dated April 1905. Unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted; this issue’s printed editorial pages 401–480 are imported as separate source-native records.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1905-04)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0806unse
  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*, April 1905

The retained masthead identifies this as volume VIII, number 6, *Improvement Era*, organ of the Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, published by the General Board.

## Contents

- Sunday in the New Testament, 401
- Ascent of Mauna Haleakala, 414
- Development and Training of the Child. II, 422
- A Desert Flower, 429
- The Yellow Peril as Seen in Japan, 431
- Faithful Boys, 435
- Mound Builders and American Antiquities, 436
- Mediocrity Not Good Enough, 440
- A Mother’s Letters to Her Missionary Son. III, 441
- April, 446
- Monuments and Altars at Copan, 447
- Speed the Message, 449
- An Incident on the San Pedro, 451
- Topics of the Moment, 455
- Editor’s Table, 460
- The Apostate, 463
- Testimony of John W. Rigdon, 465
- Questions and Answers, 467
- Notes, 469
- In Lighter Mood, 471
- Events of the Month, 473