--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 3 number: 6 published: 1900-04 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Give Yourself," *Improvement Era* 3, no. 6 (April 1900): 470.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera36unse 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: improvementera36unse start_page: 470 end_page: 470 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1900-04) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera36unse publication_year: 1900 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 1900, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Give Yourself GIVE YOURSELF. "What can we do for you?" asked the church visitors of the poor old soul whom they found on the pallet of straw in the attic. They thought she would say "bread," "fuel," "covering," for she lacked all of these. "What do you want?" "People," she said; "send some one to talk to me. I am lonely." It is kind treatment that the weary world most needs. To Artabazus, a courtier, Cyrus gave a cup of gold, but to Chrysanthus, his favorite, he gave only a kiss. Whereupon the courtier said, "Sire, the cup you gave me was not so good gold as the kiss you gave Chrysanthus." Many a heart will still be hungry, vacant, famished and aching after receiving magnificent presents, because the giver is not in his gift. Only the heart can feed the heart. Many a noble heart has starved 'mid plenty because its famished affections were not fed. You cannot send the best of yourself in a ton of coal, a book, a doll or a check. "It will not go without you. You must go with it. Give yourself; this is what your friend wants. Success.