---
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: 15
number: 9
published: 1912-07
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Hopi Indian Building: Photo," *Improvement Era* 15, no. 9 (July 1912): 787.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1509unse
  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: improvementera1509unse
start_page: 787
end_page: 787
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1912-07)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1509unse
  publication_year: 1912
  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 1912, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Hopi Indian Building: Photo

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SING < iXI.V WHAT Wl. 1:1.1. II VI. 787 mony with the truths of the gospel, and can be given from the heart of the singer. In other words, our songs should be in very deed "prayers unto the Lord." If we are careful to sing only such songs, then we are sure of the blessings which are promised by the Lord, because his promises are "true and faithful and will all be fulfiled." In conclusion, I say God bless our individual singers, and the members of our musical organizations. I know of no more selfsacrificing and loyal people than those who constitute our choirs, and who are constantly singing at funerals and in our meetings for the benefit of the Saints. Their talents are given freely, and almost without exception without financial reward. I for one appreciate, beyond my ability to tell, the self-sacrificing and loyal devotion of our singers. I wish them God-speed, and there is no blessing too good for these faithful workers. From the bottom of my heart, I pray that the choicest blessings of the Lord may ever attend them, and that they may constantly grow and improve in their art, and that they may also advance in a knowledge of the gospel of Jesus Christ. HOPl INDIAN BUILDING, GRAND i VNYON. ARIZONA