---
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: 9
published: 1906-07
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. 9 (July 1906), cover, masthead, and table of contents.
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0909unse
  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: improvementera0909unse
curator_note: Cover, masthead, and table of contents retained. The masthead identifies volume 9, number 9, dated July 1906. The scan’s unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted; printed editorial pages 665–744 are retained as separate source-native records.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1906-07)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0909unse
  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*, July 1906

The retained masthead identifies this as volume IX, number 9, *Improvement Era*, organ of the Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, published by the General Board.

## Contents

- The Prophetic Value of Section Two, 665
- I Care Not, 673
- Life of St. Paul for the Young. XXVII–XXIX, 674
- The Lover’s Walk, 683
- A Brand Plucked from the Burning, 685
- A Wreck, 691
- The Land of Ferns, 692
- Work, 694
- The Missionary—The Soldier of the Cross, 695
- Concerning the Education of Young Men. V: High School and College, 698
- Utah, 703
- Book of Mormon Translation—Correspondence, 706
- Palmetto, 714
- The Happy Life, 721
- Editor’s Table, 731
- Messages from the Missions, 733
- Our Work, 735
- Events and Comments, 739