---
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, *Improvement Era* 15, no. 9 (July 1912), cover, masthead, and editorial contents.
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
curator_note: Cover, masthead, and contents retained. The masthead identifies volume 15, number 9, dated July 1912. Advertising leaves are omitted. The unnumbered frontispiece is described by the contents but is not assigned invented pagination. Printed editorial pages 761–864 are transcribed as source-native records.
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.
---

# *Improvement Era*, July 1912

*Improvement Era*, vol. 15, no. 9 (July 1912), published monthly at Salt Lake City by the General Board of the Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations.

## Editorial contents

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- To the Sego Lily: A Poem, 761.
- The Resurrection and Marriage for Eternity, 763.
- Spring’s Awakening: A Poem, 769.
- From Nauvoo to Salt Lake in the Van of the Pioneers: XVI, 770.
- A Love Story, 773.
- The Pilgrim Fathers and the “Mormon” Pioneers, 774.
- Gretna Green, 779.
- Sing Only What We Believe, 784.
- Hopi Indian Building: Photo, 787.
- Thoughts of a Farmer: X—On Pulling Weeds, 788.
- The Open Road: Stages VII and VIII, 790.
- Respectability, 800.
- Little Problems of Married Life: XI, 806.
- Our Good Angel, 811.
- “Wireless”: A Poem, 813.
- A Purpose in Life, 814.
- In the Petrified Forest, Arizona: Photo, 816.
- A Glimpse of the Scottish Highlands, 817.
- Pioneer Incidents, 822.
- Conjoint Sessions of the Seventeenth Annual M. I. A. Conference: “Brigham Young as a Pioneer”, 825.
- “The Three Pioneer Women of Utah”, 830.
- “A Talk on Language”, 832.
- “The Place of the Y. L. M. I. A. in the Church”, 836.
- “The Place of the Y. M. M. I. A. in the Church”, 839.
- Sunrise on the Plains of Nebraska, 841.
- Editors’ Table: Strive to Be Broad as the Gospel, 843.
- The Annual M. I. A. Conference, 845.
- Hyrum Gibbs Smith, Presiding Patriarch, with Portrait, 847.
- Messages from the Missions, 850.
- Priesthood Quorums’ Table: Explaining Reference in Doctrine and Covenants 135:4—Lesson VI: No Short Cuts to Knowledge, 855.
- A New Course of Study: Harmonize Matthew 1:1–17 with Luke 3:23–38, 856.
- Mutual Work: Convention Dates for 1912, 857.
- Officers and Members of the General Board Y. M. M. I. A., 857.
- The Reading Course, 1912–13, 858.
- Second Annual M. I. A. Field Day, 859.
- Resolutions Respecting Weekly Half-Holiday, 860.
- Passing Events, 863.