--- 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, "Notes," *Improvement Era* 3, no. 6 (April 1900): 475.' 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: 475 end_page: 475 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. --- # Notes notes of taps rang out on the clear air, the body of the peaceful ruler, the noble brave, the white man's friend, was lowered into the grave. And so passed a wonderful personality from the midst of a dwindling race, once the monarchs of the West, now the simple, soldier-guarded reservation wards of a mighty nation of conquerors. NOTES. Aim high and don't forget at what you are aiming. Be sure that every one of you has his place and vocation on this earth, and that it rests with himself to find it. Do not believe those who too lightly say, "Nothing succeeds like success." Effort — honest, manful, humble effort— succeeds by its reflected action, especially in gained youth, better than success, which, indeed, too easily and too early the dice, to blind and stunot seldom serves, like winning the throw of pefy. Gladstone. a leading thinker and edu- Prof. Schurman, of Cornell University, and late of the Philippine commission, has cator of the United States, religious world by announcing that the government should startled the Filipinos. He fears evil formulate a religion fitted for the wants of the and perceives the still worse will follow the present Catholic influence, hundreds of contending sects with their controuble of permitting the doctrines to invade the islands. Such a medley of religions tradictory distrust more than ever, would distract the natives, and lead them to everything that comes from America. The scheme does more credit to to his ability to devise the practithe Professor's kindness of heart than Then again, the Professor seems to ignore the idea of the divine cal According to his philoso].hy, religion is only a manorigin of religion. more readily evolved by a conglom- made affair after all, which could be dignitaries than by quietly waiting on the erate convention of sectarian But if a religion based on eternal truth, and coin- revelations of God. in the Bible, could be evolved, it would ciding with the word of God "Mormonism," divinely revealed, that a cry without doubt so resemble side.— E. Ward. would be raised against it on every J.