---
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: 7
published: 1908-05
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. 7 (May 1908), cover, masthead, and table of contents.
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1107unse
  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: improvementera1107unse
curator_note: Cover and masthead are retained. The masthead identifies volume 11, number 7, dated May 1908. Unnumbered advertising leaves before the masthead and after printed p. 568 are omitted because they are advertisements; no archive leaf numbers are used.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1908-05)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1107unse
  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*, May 1908

The retained masthead identifies this as volume 11, number 7, *Improvement Era*, organ of the Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations.

## Contents

- How Knowledge Comes, 489
- Utah, 493
- In the Days of ’49, 495
- Work’s Worth, 502
- Romance of a Missionary. VII. The Dearth of Men, 503
- The Changed Cross, 511
- The Use of the Idle Hour, 514
- Visit to a Volcano in Savaii, 519
- The Modern Skeptic, 523
- Thoughts of a Farmer. VII. Leaders, 528
- What of the Boy in Summer Time?, 531
- For the Increase of Faith: The Voice of the Spirit, 535
- On the Altar of Motherhood, 540
- Editor’s Table, 544
- Seventy’s Council Table, 556
- Mutual Work, 560
- Events and Comments, 564