---
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: 5
published: 1914-03
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. 5 (March 1914).
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1705unse
  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: improvementera1705unse
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 1914-03)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1705unse
  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, March 1914

*Improvement Era*, vol. 17, no. 5 (March 1914).

## Contents

The Honor and Dignity of Priesthood (407), Two Pictures. A Poem (411), Conditions of Success—II (413), Voice of the Intangible—XXIII, XXIV (417), Solomon and the Bees. A Poem (427), Jim Bridger, “Our First Citizen”—II (429), Be Careful of Your Words. A Poem (435), Salvation (436), Through Dreamland's Gates. A Poem (439), A Bird's-Eye View of Mexico's Troubles (440), Mr. Dane's Defense. A Story (445), The Revealing Angels. A Poem (453), In the Sign of the Cross (455), Ostrich Farming in South Africa (459), A Song of Progress. A Poem (461), Discoveries on the Colorado—V (462), The Hunch-Back. A Poem (470), Hebrew Idioms and Analogies in the Book of Mormon—III (471), Stand by the Right, Always (475), Editors' Table—Three Threatening Dangers (476), On Titles (479), Messages from the Missions (480), Priesthood Quorums' Table (485), Mutual Work (488), Passing Events (495).