---
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: 7
published: 1909-05
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* 12, no. 7 (May 1909), cover, masthead, and table of contents.
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1207unse
  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: improvementera1207unse
curator_note: Cover, masthead, and table of contents are retained. The masthead identifies volume 12, number 7, dated May 1909. Unnumbered advertising leaves before the first printed editorial page and after printed p. 584 are omitted because they are advertisements; no archive leaf numbers are used.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1909-05)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1207unse
  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.
---

# *Improvement Era*, May 1909

The retained masthead identifies this as volume 12, number 7, *Improvement Era*, organ of the Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations.

## Contents

- The Age and Destiny of the Earth, 505
- A Fragment, 509
- The Utah Library-Gymnasium Movement, 510
- If with my Very Latest Breath, 516
- The Tragedy and Triumph of Youth—VI. Character and Courage Youth’s Capital, 517
- The Rose, 519
- An Adventure in the Wilderness, 520
- The Writing on the Wall, 523
- Guard the Children, 528
- St. Paul’s Companions in Rome—VIII. Epaphroditus, 529
- Training of Children, 535
- How to Rise, 536
- A Phenomenon in Old Mexico, 537
- In the Wasatch Mountains—Devil’s Gate Bridge, Weber Canyon, 541
- Self-Control—XII. The Power of Personal Influence, 542
- No Use to Grumble, 545
- Herbert Melbourne—VII, 546
- Growth of the Church, 554
- Editor’s Table—Search and Ye Shall Find, 561
- Latter-day Saints and Prohibition, 563
- New Books by Home Authors, 565
- Messages from the Missions, 569
- Priesthood Quorums’ Table, 573
- Mutual Work, 576
- Events and Comments, 579