---
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: 7
published: 1914-05
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* 17, no. 7 (May 1914), cover, masthead, and editorial contents.
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1707unse
  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: improvementera1707unse
curator_note: Cover, masthead, and source table of contents retained. Advertising leaves are omitted. Printed pagination follows the image-verified leaf-to-folio map; unnumbered front editorial material is retained without page markers.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1914-05)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1707unse
  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*, May 1914

*Improvement Era*, vol. 17, no. 7 (May 1914).

## Editorial contents

- Peace.
- Loud Laughter a Sin.
- The Peace that is no Peace.
- Hebrew Idioms and Analogies in the Book of Mormon—IV.
- Voice of the Intangible—XXVI.
- A Rural Nocturne.
- In Honor of President Charles W. Penrose.
- It Pays to Do Things Properly and Carefully.
- Conditions of Success—IV.
- The Spirit of Freedom.
- Discoveries on the Colorado—VII.
- The “Mormon” Burial Ground at Mt. Pisgah.
- The Light of the East.
- May Day.
- Editors’ Table—Church Conditions.
- Concerning the Book of Mormon Clause “It Came to Pass”.
- Major Gilbert.
- Messages from the Missions.
- Priesthood Quorums’ Table.
- Mutual Work.
- Passing Events.