---
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: 11
published: 1914-09
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Cover, Masthead, and Contents," *Improvement Era* 17, no. 11 (September 1914): 1003–1094.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera17011unse
  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: improvementera17011unse
start_page: 1003
end_page: 1094
curator_note: Cover and masthead retained. Editorial contents are split at source-native headings. Advertising leaves are intentionally omitted. Unnumbered front matter and image-only leaves are retained only where editorially material; the leaf-to-printed-folio ledger and audit artifacts remain outside the repository.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1914-09)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera17011unse
  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.
---

# Cover, Masthead, and Contents

*Improvement Era*, vol. 17, no. 11 (September 1914).

## Editorial contents

- Preparation for Missionary Life, 1003.
- The Parable of the Unwise Bee, 1008.
- A Righteous Woman’s Recompense, 1010.
- I Saw Another Angel Fly, 1030.
- Tell Her, O Passing Cloud, 1039.
- The Evolution Hypothesis: What It Is, 1040.
- Discoveries on the Colorado, 1048.
- Jeanne: A Tale of the Hills, 1056.
- Small Things Make Up Life, 1059.
- Hebrew Idioms and Analogies in the Book of Mormon, 1061.
- Whatsoever Thou Shalt Bind on Earth Shall Be Bound in Heaven, 1064.
- War and Retribution, 1067.
- The Value of Opportunity, 1069.
- Mar-ga-ret, 1073.
- Editors’ Table: The Great War, 1074.
- Priesthood Quorums’ Table: Answers to Questions, 1085.
- Mutual Work, 1086.
- Passing Events, 1089.