---
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: 21
number: 3
published: 1918-01
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* 21, no. 3 (January 1918).
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2103unse
  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: improvementera2103unse
curator_note: Source verified against the Internet Archive scan and masthead (vol. XXI, no. 3). Advertising-only leaves 1–2 and 99–100 are omitted; leaf 4 is retained as unpaginated editorial frontispiece context. Scan leaves were mapped to visible printed folios before transcription; frontispiece and illustrated material are retained as figure comments or source-native items without invented pagination.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1918-01)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2103unse
  publication_year: 1918
  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 1918, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Improvement Era, January 1918

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## Contents

- Alfred Lambourne, “A Prayer,” 189.
- Joseph F. Smith Jr., “What Is Spiritual Death?,” 191.
- Annie Woodbury Hafen, “The American Mother's Prayer,” 195.
- H. R. Merrill, “An Aged Recruit,” 196.
- E. G. Peterson, “The Meaning of Education: VII—Education and War,” 201.
- Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, “Secretary Daniels and the Soldiers,” 202.
- Joseph F. Merrill, “Home Evening,” 203.
- Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, “First at Last,” 207.
- Duncan M. McAllister, “Temple Ceremonies,” 208.
- Woodrow Wilson, “To the Soldiers of the National Army,” 213.
- D. W. Cummings, “Mother-Heart,” 214.
- Bertha A. Kleinman, “A Song of the War,” 232.
- Joseph M. Tanner, “Problems of Every-day Life: I–III,” 233.
- Grace Ingles Frost, “Anticipation,” 241.
- Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, “Views of a Monster Zeppelin,” 242.
- Bertha A. Kleinman, “Each Little Hour,” 243.
- F. S. Harris, “The Makers of Science: IV—Galileo,” 244.
- George H. Brimhall, “A Question to Young Men,” 248.
- Evan Stephens, “The Farmer Boy,” 250.
- Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, “Lieut. Gen. Julian Byng,” 252.
- Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, “The Heart of Jerusalem,” 254.
- Alfred Lambourne, “Jerusalem,” 255.
- James E. Talmage, “Religion of Daily Life,” 256.
- Joseph F. Smith, “Editors' Table: The Fall of Jerusalem,” 259.
- Heber J. Grant, “A Message to the Soldiers,” 261.
- Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, “The Man of Tomorrow,” 265.
- Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, “Messages from the Missions,” 267.
- Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, “Priesthood Quorums' Table,” 270.
- Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, “Mutual Work,” 271.
- Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, “Passing Events,” 277.
- Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, “General Efficiency Report of Y. M. M. I. A.,” 282.