---
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: 22
number: 3
published: 1919-01
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* 22, no. 3 (January 1919).
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2203unse
  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: improvementera2203unse
curator_note: Source verified against the Internet Archive masthead. Advertising-only leaves 1–2 and 99–100 are omitted; leaf 4 is an unpaginated editorial frontispiece.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1919-01)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2203unse
  publication_year: 1919
  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 1919, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Improvement Era, January 1919

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## Contents

- Alfred Lambourne, “1919,” 185.
- Edward H. Anderson, “Reorganization of the First Presidency—President Heber J. Grant,” 187.
- Lydia D. Alder, “The Written Word,” 190.
- Charles W. Nibley, “Reminiscences of President Joseph F. Smith,” 191.
- George H. Brimhall, James E. Talmage, and Nephi Jensen, “In Honor of President Joseph F. Smith,” 199.
- Joseph S. Peery, “The Heaven We Get Will Be the Heaven We Earn,” 203.
- Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, “Funeral of President Joseph F. Smith,” 204.
- N. L. Nelson, “The Gateway,” 208.
- Anthony W. Ivins, “Traveling Over Forgotten Trails,” 217.
- Susa Young Gates, “My Prayer,” 220.
- James E. Talmage, “What Doth It Profit a Man?,” 221.
- Claude T. Barnes, “At the Top of the Canyon—II,” 223.
- F. H. Sweet, “Accompanied by Their Most Severe Censure,” 241.
- Osborne J. P. Widtsoe, “The Efficient Mutual,” 245.
- Edward H. Anderson, “General Superintendency Y. M. M. I. A. Reorganization,” 267.
- Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, “Messages from the Missions,” 271.
- Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, “Mutual Work,” 273.
- Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, “Passing Events,” 275.