---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Stephens, Evan
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 22
number: 11
published: 1919-09
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Stephens, Evan, "For Thee We Pray," *Improvement Era* 22, no. 11 (September 1919): 954–955.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera22011unse
  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: improvementera22011unse
start_page: 954
end_page: 955
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1919-09)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera22011unse
  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.
---

# For Thee We Pray

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