---
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: 18
number: 2
published: 1914-12
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* 18, no. 2 (December 1914): 97–189.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1802unse
  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: improvementera1802unse
start_page: 97
end_page: 189
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 1914-12)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1802unse
  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. 18, no. 2 (December 1914).

## Editorial contents

- The Breaking of Law—An Instance, 97.
- A King of Western Scouts, 103.
- The Navajo Indians, 112.
- Anthon L. Skanchy, 119.
- The Evolution Hypothesis and Its Geological Record, 127.
- The Teacher: Was Christ a Genius?, 135.
- Hebrew Idioms and Analogies in the Book of Mormon, 136.
- A Righteous Woman’s Recompense, 144.
- The Lamb of God, 148.
- God’s Kingdom, 150.
- Jesus of Nazareth, 152.
- A Reversal, 155.
- Sunset on the Jungfrau, 157.
- The Star of Bethlehem, 158.
- The Man at the Helm, 159.
- Editors’ Table: Our Battle—To Conquer Evil, 160.
- Priesthood Quorums’ Table: Gospel Themes, 172.
- Mutual Work, 175.
- Passing Events, 183.