---
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: 12
number: 2
published: 1908-12
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* 12, no. 2 (December 1908): 81–168.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1202unse
  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: improvementera1202unse
start_page: 81
end_page: 168
curator_note: "Cover, masthead, and contents retained. Unnumbered advertising leaves are intentionally omitted: leaves 1–4 and 93–94; editorial folios 81–168 map to source leaves 5–92."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1908-12)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1202unse
  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.
---

# Cover, Masthead, and Contents

*Improvement Era*. Volume 12, no. 2. December 1908. Organ of the Seventies and the Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations; published by the General Board, Salt Lake City.

## Contents

- Halls, William, “The Real, the Final, the Absolute Truth.”
- Parry, Edwin F., “Herbert Melbourne.”
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Twin Buttes, near Bluff, San Juan County, Utah.”
- Bryce-Thomas, R. M., “St. Paul’s Companions in Rome—III.”
- Jordan, William George, “Self-Control—VII: Living Life Over Again.”
- Latimer, D. A., “Do We Forget?.”
- Anderson, Edward H., “The Mission of the Prophet Joseph Smith.”
- Bennion, Milton, “The Philosophers on Conduct—IV: Socrates—Plato.”
- Curtis, Theo. E., “The Voice of the Shepherd: A Poem.”
- Hale, Heber Q., “Obedience to Counsel.”
- Hickman, J. E., “The Tragedy and Triumph of Youth—II: Character the Product of Free-Will Struggle.”
- Roberts, Eugene L., “Can You Rightly Answer These Questions?.”
- Rich, Joseph C., “How to Succeed in Preaching the Gospel.”
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Editor’s Table: Games of Chance; Moderation in Burial Displays; Was Jesus the Messiah?; To Create; The Election.”
- Roberts, B. H., “Seventy’s Council Table.”
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Mutual Work: Bear River Stake Superintendency.”
- Anderson, Edward H., “Events and Comments.”