---
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: 9
number: 3
published: 1906-01
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* 9, no. 3 (January 1906).
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0903unse
  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: improvementera0903unse
curator_note: Cover, masthead, and contents retained. The masthead identifies volume 9, number 3, dated January 1906. Unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted; printed editorial pages 185–264 are transcribed as source-native records. Photograph-only leaves within editorial matter are noted as figures in their containing record.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1906-01)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0903unse
  publication_year: 1906
  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 1906, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# *Improvement Era*, January 1906

*Improvement Era*. Volume 9, no. 3. January 1906. Organ of the Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations; published by the General Board, Salt Lake City.

## Contents

- The Atonement—Why It Was Necessary, 185.
- The Quarrel: A Poem, 191.
- Life of St. Paul for the Young—V–IX, 192.
- The Door to Forgiveness, 209.
- Man's Free Agency, 213.
- The Greatest Height: A Poem, 214.
- Coyotes: A Tale of the Hills, 215.
- The Bon Festival, 222.
- A Winter's Frolic: A Poem, 225.
- Sieges-Allee, 226.
- A New Year's Shrine, 231.
- Topics of the Moment, 240.
- Editor's Table, 246.
- In Lighter Mood, 257.
- Our Work, 258.
- Events and Comments, 260.