---
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: 4
published: 1918-02
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. 4 (February 1918).
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2104unse
  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: improvementera2104unse
curator_note: Source verified against the Internet Archive scan and masthead (vol. XXI, no. 4). 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 1918-02)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2104unse
  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, February 1918

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## Contents

- Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, “Abraham Lincoln to the Nations,” 283.
- James E. Talmage, “The Will of God Though Opposed, Yet Eventually Supreme,” 285.
- Crammond Kennedy, “The Nation's Prayer,” 287.
- Sarah E. Hawley Pearson, “To Avelan,” 288.
- Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, “The Holy Sepulchre,” 291.
- Violet Iversen and D. W. Parratt, “Outlines for Scout Workers: XXI,” 292.
- Henry Holcomb Bennett, “The Flag Goes By,” 296.
- Alfred Lambourne, “The Innocents,” 297.
- Elsie C. Carroll, “The Feud,” 298.
- Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, “How Like Us All!,” 303.
- Joseph M. Tanner, “Problems of the Age,” 304.
- Maud Baggarley, “Departure of the “First Utah”,” 312.
- Franklin Stewart Harris, “America's Part in Preventing Famine,” 313.
- Joseph M. Tanner, “Thoughts of a Farmer: XII—Old Kit,” 319.
- Edward H. Anderson, “In the Footsteps of Their Forefathers,” 321.
- Osborne J. P. Widtsoe, “Aim in the Teaching of Theology,” 330.
- F. S. Harris, “The Makers of Science: V,” 334.
- Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, “A Man Who Is Not a Man,” 336.
- Evan Stephens, “Teamsters' Chorus,” 338.
- Woodrow Wilson, “Why at War, and on What Terms Peace,” 340.
- Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, “The Day,” 350.
- Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, “New Stake Presidencies,” 350.
- Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, “Bethlehem, the Birth Place of Christ,” 352.
- Joseph F. Smith, “Editors' Table: Faith and the Resurrection,” 353.
- Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, “Notice to Melchizedek Priesthood Quorums,” 361.
- Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, “Books,” 361.
- Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, “Messages from the Missions,” 363.
- Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, “Mutual Work,” 365.
- Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, “Passing Events,” 371.