---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Anderson, Edward H.; Stephens, Evan
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 25
number: 5
published: 1922-03
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Edward H. Anderson and Evan Stephens, "The Lord Sustains the Faltering Soul," *Improvement Era* 25, no. 5 (March 1922): 412–413.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2505unse
  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: improvementera2505unse
start_page: 412
end_page: 413
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1922-03)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2505unse
  publication_year: 1922
  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 1922, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# The Lord Sustains the Faltering Soul
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