A good book is like a good name-better than riches.

IMPROVEMENT ERA

ORGAN OF

YOUNG MEN'S MUTUAL IMPROVEMENT
ASSOCIATIONS,

CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS.

VOLUME NINE.

PUBLISHED BY THE GENERAL BOARD.

"What you young people want, is a magazine that will
make a book to be bound and kept, with something in it
worth keeping."-President John Taylor.

EDITED BY

JOSEPH F. SMITH AND EDWARD H. ANDERSON

HEBER J. GRANT, MANAGER

SALT LAKE CITY,

1906.

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

JUL 1 1914

CHARLES ELLIOTT PERKINS
MEMORIAL COLLECTION

The Glory of God is Intelligence.