---
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: 9
published: 1907-07
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* 10, no. 9 (July 1907), cover, masthead, and table of contents.
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1009unse
  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: improvementera1009unse
curator_note: Cover, masthead, and table of contents retained. The masthead identifies volume 10, number 9, dated July 1907. Unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted. Printed editorial pages are retained as separate source-native records.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1907-07)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1009unse
  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*, July 1907

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

## Contents

- “Away, Away, to the Mountain Dell”, 641
- The Song of a Pioneer, 647
- The Closing Years of St. Paul’s Life in Rome, 648
- A Twenty Days’ Lesson, 655
- A Pioneer Apostle, 663
- The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. XXXV–XXXVIII, 664
- Opportunity, 672
- Kit Carson’s Gun, 673
- Why?, 679
- The Sun-set Land, 682
- The Genius of “Mormonism”, 683
- Every-day Incidents. I: Nat’s Job, 686
- The Reign of Love, 688
- Answer to Ministerial Association Review, 689
- Consistency, 745
- The Old Ranch, 751
- Editor’s Table: On Calling and Releasing, 752
- Messages from the Missions, 754
- Notes, 756
- In Lighter Mood, 758
- Our Work: General Conference and M. I. A. Convention, 1907, 759
- Events and Comments, 763