---
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: 17
number: 3
published: 1914-01
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* 17, no. 3 (January 1914).
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1703unse
  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: improvementera1703unse
curator_note: Cover, masthead, and table of contents retained. Commercial advertisements and unnumbered advertising leaves omitted; image-only editorial plates are represented in their owning item as comments.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1914-01)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1703unse
  publication_year: 1914
  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 1914, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Improvement Era, January 1914

*Improvement Era*, vol. 17, no. 3 (January 1914).

## Contents

Sermonets (187), In Love's Own Palace. A Poem (188), Hebrew Idioms and Analogies in the Book of Mormon—I (189), How the Lord Saved Israel. A Poem (192), A Story Dr. Maeser Told (194), After Death, What? (196), The Glorious Day. A Hymn Set to Music (199), Belated Emigrants of 1856—III (201), To Baby. A Poem (211), Voice of the Intangible—XXI (212), The M. I. A. Contests—III (218), An Appeal to Boys (221), Self-Help in Colleges (222), Hymn to the Mothers of Men. A Poem (226), Christianity (228), Discoveries on the Colorado—III (230), Peace and Rest. A Poem (236), Childless Americans (237), Education and the State (244), The Navajo and Moqui Mission (247), New Mission Presidents (249), Joseph and the Land of Egypt (253), A Parable and an Application (256), Joseph Smith as Educator (259), Editors' Table—New Year's Greeting—Work for Returned Missionaries (263), Messages from the Missions (267), Priesthood Quorums' Table (269), Mutual Work (272), Passing Events (278).