---
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: 6
published: 1909-04
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. 6 (April 1909): 409–504.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1206unse
  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: improvementera1206unse
start_page: 409
end_page: 504
curator_note: "Cover, masthead, and table of contents retained. Unnumbered advertising and subscription leaves are intentionally omitted: leaves 1–4 and leaves 101–102; editorial folios 409–504 map to source leaves 5–100."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1909-04)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1206unse
  publication_year: 1909
  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 1909, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Cover, Masthead, and Contents

*Improvement Era*. Volume 12, no. 6. April 1909. Organ of the Priesthood Quorums and the Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; published at Salt Lake City by the General Board.

## Contents

- Penrose, Charles W., “Personality of the Holy Ghost.”
- Stuart, Oni D., “The Angel Side.”
- Anderson, Lewis, “The Manti Temple.”
- Markham, Edwin, “Use Money to Make Men.”
- Kirby, George D., “Food.”
- Stewart, M. A., “A Prayer and Its Answer.”
- Lilley, Henry J., “From India's Coral Strand.”
- Goff, Harold, “Judge Not.”
- Parry, Edwin F., “Herbert Melbourne—VI.”
- Apperley, W. H., “I Can and I Will.”
- Jordan, William George, “Self-Control—XI: Hurry, the Scourge of America.”
- Frost, Grace Ingles, “Only.”
- Kenner, S. A., “Utah's Holidays.”
- Anderson, David B., “In the Uintahs.”
- Bryce-Thomas, R. M., “St. Paul's Companions in Rome—VI: Demas.”
- Haddock, Lon J., “The Song of Spring.”
- Crosby, George H., Jr., “A Reminiscence of Erastus Snow.”
- Evans, George Marks, “Springtime: Glee.”
- Brown, John Z., “Nauvoo Today.”
- Day, J. Frank, “The Giver of Books.”
- Alder, Lydia D., “The Wagner Monument.”
- Gates, Susa Young, “The Double Agony.”
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “The Resurrection and the Life.”
- Anderson, Edward H., “Editor's Table: Age of the Earth.”
- Widtsoe, John A., “Time-Length of Creation.”
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Messages from the Missions.”
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Mutual Work: The Snowflake Mutuals; The Annual Conference; New M. I. A. Song Book.”
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Priesthood Quorums' Table.”
- Anderson, Edward H., “Events and Comments.”