---
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: 9
published: 1909-07
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. 9 (July 1909), cover, masthead, and table of contents.
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1209unse
  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: improvementera1209unse
curator_note: Cover, masthead, and table of contents are retained. The masthead identifies volume 12, number 9, dated July 1909. Unnumbered advertising leaves before the first printed editorial page and after printed p. 760 are omitted because they are advertisements; no archive leaf numbers are used.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1909-07)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1209unse
  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*, July 1909

The retained masthead identifies this as volume 12, number 9, *Improvement Era*, organ of the Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations.

## Contents

- An Objection to the Book of Mormon Answered, 681
- Governor William Spry, 690
- Key to Success, 689
- I Know, 692
- How the First Pioneer Day was Celebrated, 693
- The Clearing of the Firmament, 696
- Self-Control—XIV. Failure as a Success, 698
- Details, 702
- Herbert Melbourne—VIII, 703
- St. Paul’s Companions in Rome—IX. Tychicus, 708
- Triviality, 709
- Opportunity and Happiness, 710
- Don’t Complain, 712
- Nauvoo Today—III, 713
- The First Handcart Company, 720
- A Glimpse at Stevenson’s Last Resting Place, 724
- Quit Your Knocking, 727
- The Tragedy and Triumph of Youth—VII. The Riches of Adversity vs. the Poverty of Opulence, 728
- The Dispensation of the Fulness of Times, 733
- The Christiania Conference House, 734
- People and Places in the Orient—II. On the Wave, 737
- Wonders of Southern Utah, 743
- Editor’s Table—What the Purpose?, 744
- Messages from the Missions, 747
- Priesthood Quorums’ Table, 749
- Mutual Work, 751
- Events and Comments, 756