---
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: 11
number: 5
published: 1908-03
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* 11, no. 5 (March 1908).
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1105unse
  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: improvementera1105unse
curator_note: Cover, masthead, and contents are retained as bibliographic matter. The editorial run is printed pp. 321–400; the unnumbered advertising leaves before and after that run are omitted under the Improvement Era advertising policy.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1908-03)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1105unse
  publication_year: 1908
  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 1908, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# *Improvement Era*, March 1908

*Improvement Era*. Volume 11, no. 5. March 1908. Organ of the Seventies and Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations; published by the General Board, Salt Lake City.

## Contents

- The Philosophy of Faith and Worship, 321.
- Wasatch Mountains—In Cottonwood Canyon, 329.
- What of the Home-Coming?—A Narrative Based on Real Life, 330.
- Thoughts of a Farmer—V. The Test of Goodness and Value, in Horses and Men, 338.
- The Answer to Death: A Poem, 341.
- Romance of a Missionary—V. The Green Lanes of England, 342.
- A Fragment of Early Church History, 353.
- In the Petrified Forests of Arizona, 359.
- For the Increase of Faith—Sacredness of the Temple—Aid from Beyond the Veil, 361.
- A Tribute to Margaret Hull, 364.
- The Church of Latter-days: A Poem, 368.
- The Boy Problem—III. What the Schools Can Do, 369.
- Say a Word of Happiness: A Poem, 374.
- The World’s Great Religions—III. Confucianism, 375.
- The Cross of Sorrow: A Poem, 378.
- Editor’s Table—“I Know That My Redeemer Lives”, 379.
- Messages from the Missions, 388.
- Notes, 390.
- Seventy’s Council Table, 391.
- Mutual Work—Hawaiian M. I. A.—Mutual Notes, 394.
- Events and Comments, 395.