---
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: 10
number: 5
published: 1907-03
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* 10, no. 5 (March 1907).
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1005unse
  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: improvementera1005unse
curator_note: Cover, masthead, and contents retained. The masthead identifies volume 10, number 5, dated March 1907. Unnumbered advertising leaves 2–4 and 87–90 are omitted; printed editorial pages 321–400 are transcribed as source-native records.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1907-03)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1005unse
  publication_year: 1907
  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 1907, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# *Improvement Era*, March 1907

*Improvement Era*. Volume 10, no. 5. March 1907. Organ of the Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations; published by the General Board, Salt Lake City.

## Contents

- The Closing Years of St. Paul's Life in Rome I, 321.
- Archbishop Ireland on Temporal Power, 332.
- The Devil's Incense: A Poem, 333.
- Early-Day Recollections of Antelope Island, 334.
- Springtime: A Poem, 339.
- A Cure: A Story, 340.
- A Message to the Women of the World I, 345.
- Peace, Goodwill: A Poem, 352.
- Randy—A Story VIII–IX, 353.
- The Test of Life: A Poem, 366.
- The History of a Great Contention, 367.
- The Lone Heart: A Poem, 371.
- The History of Rasselas, XIX–XXII, 372.
- What You Will: A Poem, 379.
- The Ethics of Quarantine and Home Sanitation, 380.
- Thoughts on Two Passages of Scripture, 383.
- Calvario: A Poem, 384.
- On the Progress of Science, 385.
- Editor's Table—Our Lesson from the New Theology, 388.
- An Unpublished Poem, 392.
- Messages from the Missions, 393.
- Events and Comments, 396.