Download or read book Improvement Era Vol 25 written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-07 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Improvement Era, Vol. 25: June, 1922 The organization in the Church best fitted to stimulate a wholesome discontent is the Mutual Improvement Association. By its title it is dedicated to the task of arousing its members to a common betterment. This organization, if it is functioning, is helping men and women to understand how much more the gospel comprehends than a knowledge of the Ten Command ments, the Articles of Faith, and the Word of Wisdom. These are, of course, fundamental as guide posts in the way of life, but the way of life, not the guide posts, is the vital thing. There is, perhaps, nothing more disconcerting to the alert young Lat ter-day Saint, eager and confident in his quest for learning, than to find his mature brethren and sisters enjoying a kind of smug complacency in the belief that all that is important in the life of the soul is a knowledge of what the Lord has revealed. Noth ing could be further from the purposes of the Creator, and noth ing could be more fatal to effort than the idea that all the fine things of the mind and heart come as gifts. The gospel clearly enjo-ins us to strive after truth. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, of good report, or praiseworthy, we seek after these things. They do not come to us as divine gifts. They are the divine rewards of our striving. This means that we must some how catch that discontent which impels men and women to rise above themselves to the more excellent things that await them. It means that we must keep our minds open, observe carefully, and read studiously; it means that we must rise slowly but surely in appreciation to the levels of the best in the thought, the literature, the music and the art of the world. The unhappy Guinevere, reviewing in solitude the tragic errors of her life, cries out with a new understanding: What might I not have made of thy fair world, Had I but loved thy highest creature here? It was my duty to have loved the highest; It surely was my profit had I known; It would have been my pleasure had I seen. We needs must love the highest when we see it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Improvement Era Vol 37 written by Heber J. Grant and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-26 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Improvement Era, Vol. 37: June, 1934 Max turned in the direction of the Dulaney estate. In the gather ing dusk he could see a volume of black smoke rising from one end of the big stone building, and as he watched, a faint streak of red came shooting up with it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Download or read book Improvement Era Vol 25 written by Heber J. Grant and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Improvement Era, Vol. 25: January, 1922 In this connection, I desire to say to all the Latter-day Saints that we wish they would refrain from writing to laborers in the mission field suggesting that it is about time they were coming home. Where parents have had sons in the mission field for, say 15, 16 or 18 months, and feel, because of financial difficulties that it is impossible to keep' them longer, we advise that they state the circumstances to the bishop of their wards, who should then apply to the elders and seventies, and these should endeavor to raise the means to keep those young men in the field for at least two years or two years and a half. In most cases a young elder is just coming to himself and to a capacity and ability and power to preach the gospel with force and with the inspiration of God, when he has been in the mission field 18 months, and it is a great injustice to the boy who is growing spiritu ally - as he cannot grow in any other labor in all the world - that he should have to come home too soon. Those who are at home ought to realize this, and ought to feel a responsibility and a willingness and a desire to keep in the field the young men from the various wards until they have completed at least two years of service; and in many cases it would be a god-send to the young men, as well as to those who help if their mission were extended to two and a half or even three years. I remember President Lyman's idea was that a missionary who had been in the field two years and a half could do more by remaining another six months than he had done in the entire year of his previous term: and I believe this. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Download or read book Improvement Era Vol 25 written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-26 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Improvement Era, Vol. 25: October, 1922 I see men here and there going away from this camp-fire of ours, going off with people who are not of our faith. They seem to find happiness and enjoyment there, and I fear some of them have pleasures in unrighteousness. But for me, I like my own people best, for I believe they are the Lord's people, and yet those of our friends and neighbors at these different camp fires around us, they, too, are good people. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Improvement Era Vol 25 written by Heber J. Grant and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Improvement Era, Vol. 25: May, 1922 Just what, then, does this quickening of the body mean, translated into terms of everyday living? Let us first try to sense in a general way the tremendous fact of our having been made temporal (or mortal). When we compare the freedom of movement in pre-existence, - as sug gested in our Savior's revelation to Nephi, that on the morrow he was to be born in Bethlehem some twelve thousand miles eastward - with what happens to our spirits the moment we are born, that is to say, the moment we become subject to tem poral conditions, we should realize without the need of scrip tural assurance, the fact that Adam fell, that we are all fallen. No fact could possibly be more emphatic than this. Let us next proceed to examine this fall in terms of the essential attributes of matter. Summed up we shall find that it means a kind of imprisonment; and that salvation means fighting our way outward and upward to freedom. The first condition of this imprisonment is due to Mass or Weight; in other words, to the fact that our spirits become sub ject to the law of gravitation, through being tied down to a body of mortal matter. At first the bondage is all but complete: as infants our limbs are as lead. Little by little the dynamic spirit ual being within gets control - fights its way out: we creep, we walk, we run, we climb, we change these leaden limbs to bundles of nerves, the livest stuff in mortal creation. Associated with every victory over the inertia of mass or weight, are scintilla tions of the radiant energy within, and these scintillations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Improvement Era Vol 25 written by Heber J. Grant and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-30 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Improvement Era, Vol. 25: April, 1922 John Antoine was a hunter, a trapper, a guide, adding to these strenuous occupations of his youth, that of gardener in his later years. The world beyond the woods meant little to him. He never saw a great city or conceived the intensive strug gle of men and women for wealth, place and power. Ambition was to him merely a word. Nevertheless, he was exceedingly wise in forest lore and the ways of the creatures of the wilder ness. There was a peculiar kinship between him and the birds. Crows talked to him as if he were an old but somewhat severe friend. He would touch a flower as tenderly as if it were a curl on a baby's head. He always marveled at the intricate lures Nature perfected for plant and flower fertilization and he would smile broadly when he had reasoned out the con formation of a pistil or a corona. At such a time he would look at me with super-intelligent eyes revealing the compre hended thought and I read into his expression the words, This Mother Nature of ours is a unique old soul. She loves to do such odd things. However, he seldom spoke, but I learned when in his company somewhat of the pleasure that may be derived from the contemplation of natural phenomena. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Improvement Era Vol 25 written by Heber J. Grant and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Improvement Era, Vol. 25: March, 1922 Returning to the principles governing prayer, we may say that while they have not been revealed to man in their fulness, yet we are not left in doubt as to the operation of many of them. In the first place the laws governing prayer are as immutable as those of chemistry, agriculture or any other science. That is to say, response is only to be predicated by complying with the conditions of the problem. Just as the farmer reaps his harvest as a result of following definite rules of planting and cultiva tion, so we obtain answers to prayer by complying with cer tain requests of our heavenly Father. For instance, we must live every day of our lives in such manner that we are entitled to the companionship of his Holy Spirit, for without this we sever the connection by which we communicate with him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Improvement Era Vol 33 written by Heber Jeddy Grant and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-25 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Improvement Era, Vol. 33: December, 1929 When the evening dinner was finished, as the girls were about to hasten from the table. I ventured to advise that they change their program for the next day and eu joy themselves at or near home. Postponing the canyon trip. Then came the inevitable Why? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Improvement Era Vol 25 written by Heber J. Grant and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Improvement Era, Vol. 25: December, 1921 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the name of the seas; and to the. Rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Improvement Era Vol 25 written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-26 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Improvement Era, Vol. 25: November, 1921 Ode to the Flag, though doubtless the Ode was written until some years later, probably 1865: I love that flag! When in my childish glee A prattling girl, upon my grandsire's knee I heard him tell strange tales, with valor rife, How that same flag was bought with blood and life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Improvement Era Vol 25 written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Improvement Era, Vol. 25: September, 1922 I said, Will you invite that one to come and see me? I do not care to meet the other eight. When he came I said, Doctor, the nurse has told me that of the nine doctors present when I was Operated upon, you were the only one who said I would pull through. I would like to know why you disagreed with the other eight. He was a Southerner, and he said, Mr. Grant, ah just took a chance, sah; ah just took a chance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Improvement Era Vol 20 written by Joseph F. Smith and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-02-19 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Improvement Era, Vol. 20: January, 1917 In seeking for material for this subject, I was struck by the number of writers who have given to the world valuable advice and definitions of character. It almost would appear that the last word had been said on the subject, and yet, like some others of the topics of life, it is an old, old story, but ever new in its telling. In the development of character much has to be taken into consideration. In its better sense, it includes all those higher qualities that make man a moral; loving, thinking being. The value of the man is his character; not his reputation. These two must not be confounded. Character is self endowed; repu tation is that which seems, which appears to the eye of the peo ple; character is the reality of a noble life. Reputation scarcely ever agrees with one's character, for it is either higher or lower. Like one's shadow, reputation may precede or follow, extend or diminish or entirely vanish. Character is rock; reputation, shifting sand. Reputation is the coat, character the man; and, like a coat, reputation often deceives as to the real worth of its possessor. Character is complex in its nature. It is more than a good intention, or a mere respect for the moral law. That is not the kind of morality wanted. It is not enough to be good. One must be good for something. That is the kind of character we should build in our homes, in our schools, and in our nation. When you say you are good, say also for what, and a value may then be placed upon you. Negative goodness means little in the world of worth; it is unharnessed energy; it is granite lying dead in the mountain side. Judgment and will are elements in the development of character. To determine what is right and to act accordingly, is the work required. Simply storing facts, no matter how valu able, does not necessarily affect character. It is knowledge transmitted, or transformed, into wisdom that influences or be comes part of our moral worth. Character is not the learning but the assimilation of truth. That learning which is not worked into the warp and woof of the soul's purer self, lies an digested food and becomes an inviting culture for the microbes of sin. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Improvement Era Vol 25 written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Improvement Era, Vol. 25: August, 1922 From among the various definitions of civilization - for there are many'good ones - I shall adopt, for the purpose of this discussion, the one which says that Civilization is the art of living together comfortably in large numbers. I shall not take the time to prove that this requires many kinds of behavior that are not necessary for those who live alone, or even in small groups. The only question is, how far are we able or willing to modify our behavior in such ways as will permit us to live together in large numbers? Savages are limited to small groups, not because of outward and physical conditions, but because of their inability, or unwillingness, to behave in such ways as would permit them to live in large groups. Civilized men manage to live together comfortably in large groups be cause they are willing and able to modify their behavior to suit the necessities of the case. The question, How much civilization can we stand? Becom'es, therefore, the question, How far are we able or willing so to modify our behavior? It goes without saying that the ability to procure the means of subsistence is a vital factor in the problem of living together in large numbers. This is not altogether a matter of technical knowledge of superior procesdes of production. There have been great civilizations with very little of what we now call technical knowledge. There has never been a great civilization without the willingness to give up the wild, free life of the plains or the woods and to accept the humdrum, routine life of settled agriculture and industry. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Improvement Era Vol 36 written by Heber Jeddy Grant and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Improvement Era, Vol. 36: October, 1933 To such endeavor we dedicate this Congress on 'our Common Cause - Civ ilization.' Technology has created for us our House of Plenty. It is a challenge to the women of the world to find the keys through governmental and economic plan ning which will admit us to that House of Plenty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Improvement Era Vol 25 written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-30 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Improvement Era, Vol. 25: July, 1922 When the exaggerated report of the wealth possessed by the Indians of the north reached Antonio de Mendoza, the Spanish Viceroy, at Mexico, the latter ordered an expedition sent to Cibola to spy out the land. Marcos de Niza, a Friar of the church, was placed in charge of the expedition, and Esteben, the negro, was sent as guide. Niza led his party north from Sonora to the San Pedro river, near the present town of Naco, Arizona, and followed down that stream to near its junction with the Gila. Here Esteben left the expedition and hurried on. He reached Cibola, supposed tobe the present Zuni, where he was killed by the Indians. Upon hear ing of his fate, Father Marcos, on the 9th of May, took possession of the San Pedro and surrounding country in the name of the King of Spain, and returned to Sonora. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
