---
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: 12
published: 1907-10
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Cover, Masthead, and Contents," *Improvement Era* 10, no. 12 (October 1907): 929–1008.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera10012unse
  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: improvementera10012unse
start_page: 929
end_page: 1008
curator_note: "Cover, masthead, and contents retained. Unnumbered advertising leaves are intentionally omitted: leaves 1–14 and 95 through the final scan leaf; editorial folios 929–1008 are mapped from source scan leaves 15–94."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1907-10)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera10012unse
  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.
---

# Cover, Masthead, and Contents

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*Improvement Era*. Volume 10, no. 12. October 1907. Organ of the Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations; published by the General Board, Salt Lake City.

## Contents

- First Presidency, “"One Mighty and Strong",” 929.
- Mathonihah Thomas, “Star of the Night: Poem,” 943.
- William Halls, “Religion and Reason,” 944.
- Lorenzo J. Haddock, “Cheer Up: A Poem,” 949.
- Samuel Johnson, “History of Rasselas, XLVII–XLIX,” 950.
- Milton Bennion, “The Ethics of Church Fairs,” 957.
- George W. Crocheron, “A Reminiscence of Nauvoo,” 959.
- Josephine Spencer, “The Housewarming at Eardley's: A Story,” 961.
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Motes in the Sunlight of Revelation,” 970.
- Franklin S. Bramwell, “Advice to Young People,” 971.
- James Dunn, “More on Sociability,” 977.
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Duty and Love,” 978.
- Daniel P. Woodland, “The Japanese Passover,” 979.
- C. G. Van Buren, “Germination of the Cocklebur,” 981.
- Orson F. Whitney, “The Fair Fiend: A Poem,” 983.
- Joseph F. Smith, “Editor's Table: Origin of Mutual Improvement,” 985.
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “The Era, the Organ of the Seventies and the Y. M. M. I. A.; Close of Vol. 10; “Holly and Easter Lilies”,” 987.
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Messages from the Missions,” 993.
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Notes,” 996.
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “In Lighter Mood,” 997.
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Our Work: The Spirit of Our Manual; Manuals for 1907–8; Senior Manual Study,” 999.
- Joseph W. McMurrin, “Give the Boys a Chance,” 1001.
- Edward H. Anderson, “Events and Comments,” 1003.