---
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: 7
published: 1915-05
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* 18, no. 7 (May 1915), cover, masthead, and editorial contents.
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1807unse
  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: improvementera1807unse
curator_note: "Masthead and table of contents retained. Commercial advertising leaves 2 and 99–100 are intentionally omitted. The unnumbered frontispiece at leaf 4 is represented in the owning item rather than transcribed as text. Pagination follows an image-verified ledger: leaf 3 = 565; leaf 4 is an unnumbered frontispiece; leaves 5–97 = 567–659."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1915-05)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1807unse
  publication_year: 1915
  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 1915, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# *Improvement Era*, May 1915

*Improvement Era*, vol. 18, no. 7 (May 1915).

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## Editorial contents

- Work: A Song of Triumph.
- Faith.
- Unbidden Guests: Prize Story.
- The Story of the Salt Lake Theatre II.
- Anthon L. Skanchy—XIV–XVIII.
- Does God Answer Prayer?.
- The Secret of Successful Presiding.
- Urim and Thummim.
- A Cloud by Day.
- The Test: A Story.
- Missionaries.
- In Memoriam: A Poem.
- The Psychology of the War.
- Editors’ Table—Conference Topics.
- Priesthood Quorums’ Table—Report.
- Mutual Work.
- Passing Events.