---
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: 14
number: 7
published: 1911-05
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* 14, no. 7 (May 1911), cover, masthead, and editorial contents.
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1407unse
  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: improvementera1407unse
curator_note: Cover, masthead, and contents retained. The masthead identifies volume 14, number 7, dated May 1911. Advertising leaves are omitted. Printed editorial pages 567–664 are transcribed as source-native records; frontispiece and illustration leaves are retained only where they are editorial matter.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1911-05)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1407unse
  publication_year: 1911
  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 1911, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# *Improvement Era*, May 1911

*Improvement Era*, vol. 14, no. 7 (May 1911), published monthly at Salt Lake City by the General Board of the Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations.

## Editorial contents

- Springtime on the Wasatch, 567.
- The Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper, 569.
- The Worth of a Boy, 581.
- Hieroglyphics Near Benjamin, Utah, 582.
- Looking Back: A Poem, 591.
- Malerstuen, 592.
- The Crown of Individuality—XVIII, 597.
- Thoughts by a Sea Marsh: A Poem, 602.
- The Loyalty of Brigham Young—An Open Letter to Lieut. Hobson, 603.
- Wild Justice Under Law, 613.
- A Judge’s Temperance Lecture, 619.
- Pen Pictures of the Holy Land—VII, 621.
- Joseph Smith, a Prophet of God—VII, 627.
- From Nauvoo to Salt Lake in the Van of the Pioneers—VI, 631.
- The Vision: A Poem, 635.
- Editor’s Table—Important Conference Themes, 636.
- Field Day, 644.
- Messages from the Missions, 644.
- Priesthood Quorums’ Table, 650.
- Mutual Work, 655.
- Passing Events, 656.