A Word to Our Friends

PERMANENT DEPARTMENTS. 61 A WORD TO OUR FRIENDS. The month of November is the one in which the friends of the Era must be active in rolling up a good subscription list for the magazine. All things considered, November is the month when the people of this intermountain region have in hand the most money, and our young men cannot do better than to devote a portion of the means secured by the year's toil to obtain intellectual food for the season of leisure that comes to them with our long evenings in winter. And since the Era is a publication intended to be especially suited to the young men of the Church of Jesus Christ, our friends will be doing their associates a favor by calling their attention to the Era and urging them to subscribe for it. Moreover, this month the officers and members of the Improvement Associations will have the Era in hand, so that they can present the first number to those whose subscriptions they solicit. The Era is no longer a prospect, it is here. This number is a prophecy of future numbers. There will be improvements made from time to time, and new departments opened, doubtless, but the general character of this present volume is foreshadowed in this initial number. We ask our friends to do all that is possible for them to do to make the Era a success; and in doing that they will be helping the great cause of Mutual Improvement.