---
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: 4
published: 1919-02
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Mutual Work," *Improvement Era* 22, no. 4 (February 1919): 362–363.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2204unse
  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: improvementera2204unse
start_page: 362
end_page: 363
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1919-02)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2204unse
  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.
---

# Mutual Work

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                   For Re-opening the Y. M. M. I. A.

     The following suggestive program for a meeting of stake workers to
consider the date of re-opening and to discuss M. I. A. problems was sent
to stake superintendents of the Y. M. M. I. A. in early January with instructions to forward to ward presidents. Officers were asked to confer with
the priesthood authorities, and if it met with their approval to set a
definite date for the meeting. These suggestions still continue in force. It
is likely that an attractive summer program will soon be sent out to stake
superintendents.

                          SUGGESTIVE PROGRAM
A "Getting-Back-to-Work" Meeting, Stake and Ward Officers of Y. M. M. I. A
                       Some   Y.   M. M. I. A. Problems:

     1.    Our new opening night in the different wards.         (After Sacrament
Meetings begin.)
     2.                                       —       —
            Stake officers first visits to wards When Where—The Message.
     3.     Special activities.  See January Era and Journal.
     4.     Our class work, starting with Lesson No. 1.
     5.     The Teacher's Training Classes. See new book. (Application to
Y. M.      M. I. A. work.)
     6.     The Advanced Senior Class. Its opportunities.
     7.    Community singing.
     8.    How the war has affected the Y. M. M. I. A. for good.
     9.  Read Prof. O. J. P. Widtsoe's article in the January Era.
     10.  Y. M. M. I. A. Stake and Ward Efficiency. Discuss report blanks.
     11.  New Y. M. M. I. A. Chorus Book, price 45 c, twenty-three songs.
(See Era February, 1919.)
    12.  Let us catch the spirit of the times, and work, serve, play and
pray with spirit and energy for the salvation of the youth of our Church.
Inaugurate a special campaign to get every young man into the Y. M. M. I.
A.

                         Y. M. M. I. A. Choruses

     A book of twenty-three new songs for the senior and the junior Y. M.
M. I. A. members is ready. It is a compilation from Evan Stephens' choruses
that have appeared in the Improvement Era.      There is a wide variety of
interesting subjects  —just what the boys will like   to sing.    Notice the contents :
     "Obedience to Call"
     "The Cheery Smile"
     "Dear Land of the Valleys and Mountains"

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MUTUAL WORK                              363

       "The Truth, Boys, the Truth"
       "Mother"
       "At Home They are Praying for Me"
       "Beloved"
       "On the Pioneer Trail We're Marching"
       "Utah, We Love Thee" (for Junior Boys)
       "Utah, We Love Thee" (for Senior Boys)
       "Dear, Dear Old Folks"
       "Whistle a Merry Tune"
       "Dedication Anthem"
       "Marching Song of the Utah National Guard"
       "A Pioneer Campfire Song"
       "The Farmer Boy"
       "Teamsters' Chorus"
       "Invocation to Harmony"
       "The Old Gray Mare"
       "Home Defense Song"
       "Hark!   Listen to the Gentle Strain"
       "There's a Letter a-Coming for You"
       "My Star"
     Twenty-three songs for less than 2c each, bound in paper cover. Price
45c, by mail. Only a limited number on hand. Send today to the Improvement Era, 20-23 Bishop's Building, Salt Lake City, Utah.

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