---
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: 8
published: 1907-06
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. 8 (June 1907), cover, masthead, and table of contents.
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera108unse
  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: improvementera108unse
curator_note: Cover, masthead, and table of contents retained. The masthead identifies volume 10, number 8, dated June 1907. Unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted. Two unnumbered illustrated leaves within the editorial gathering are represented in reading order without page markers.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1907-06)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera108unse
  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*, June 1907

The retained masthead identifies this as volume X, number 8, *Improvement Era*, organ of the Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, published by the General Board.

## Contents

- Willard Richards—The Martyrdom of Joseph and Hyrum Smith, 561
- The Original Manuscript of the Book of Mormon, 572
- The Unknown, 576
- The Closing Years of St. Paul’s Life in Rome. IV, 577
- Not Seeing, but Believing, 585
- The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. XXX–XXXIV, 586
- Give Ear in Time of Need, 594
- Revelation Ante-Dating Scientific Discovery—An Instance, 595
- Praise the Lord, 597
- The Dependence of Morality upon Religion. III, 598
- Consolation, 607
- The Son of Believers, 608
- The Light of Those Dear Eyes, 622
- The Ethics of Misfortune, 623
- Brigham Young, 626
- Editor’s Table: Fountain of Truth, 627
- Our Work: M. I. A. Conference, 634
- Events and Comments, 637