--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - J. L. Workman collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 3 number: 9 published: 1900-07 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'J. L. Workman, "Who Will Join in This Cause?," *Improvement Era* 3, no. 9 (July 1900): 680–681.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera39unse 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: improvementera39unse start_page: 680 end_page: 681 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1900-07) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera39unse 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. --- # Who Will Join in This Cause? 680 IMPROVEMENT ERA. read our literature and converse; that while it was not the custom of the company to allow visitors at a signal office, yet I would be allowed. All this I learned in my dream. Next day, on my way to distribute tracts, for the first time I noticed a footpath, similar to that of my dream. I could see no little house, but, taking the path for four or five hundred yards, I beheld a small signal-cabin in a ravine, built by the railroad company. A sign-board in front of me read about as follows: «Any one found trespassing along this track, and at the signalman's cabin, will be prosecuted and fined not less than ten pounds and not more than forty pounds. By order " The notice in my dream was to go into the cabin, so over the fence I went, and to the shanty. There I explained to the signalman my mission, and in a two or three hours' conversation with him, found that he was seeking to know the truth, having read the claims of many faiths, joining none, as he had not yet found the truth. He had abundance of time to read and converse between trains. In the next two or three months, I visited often, leaving him Church literature and conversing on our most holy faith. The signal-cabin was the resting-place of track repairers, inspectors and railway employees in general. Sometimes the cabin was crowded with people and nearly every time, a few called in. With these workmen, and the signal-man and his wife, I had many talks on the Gospel and loaned books, gave away tracts, and was invited into a few of the homes of the people. In this way, my prayer was answered, my dream fulfilled to the smallest particular, and time may tell the amount of good done by the Lord opening up the way to that little signal station. James W. Lesueur. Guernsey, England. WHO WILL JOIN IN THIS CAUSE? The world is in a woeful condition. Yes, but does it help matters any to know that? Not in the least, unless we find the LETTERS FROM MISSIONARIES. 681 remedy. A fool might perceive that a man was sick, but it would take a wise man to point out the remedy. The true philosophy and cure for all the world's ills is embraced in one sentence of the sayings of that greatest of all philosophers, Jesus of Nazareth: "As ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise." If we had faith enough in God, mankind and ourselves to practice that "perfect law of liberty," all our land would soon be a peaceful, smiling Eden. That law can be lived, and nothing short of it practiced will ever let us realize the full meaning of life. Living the selfish lives that we do, deprives us of more than half the joys of life. Do good for the sake of good, and not for outward show or praise of man. A man's life consists not in the abundance of earthly things which he possesses. To lay up gold and silver is not the object of life. The houses and lands we possess, the food we eat and clothing we wear are merely the means to an end. We eat to live; what do we live for? In order for us to realize the full import of life, we must be educated to look upon each other as the children of a common Father, placed on earth for a wise and glorious purpose — the development of our souls; and here we are laying the foundation of the life that is to be, fitting and preparing ourselves for a greater life of progression throughout the endless ages of eternity. Now, who will be home missionaries in this cause of humanity? Who will become Latter-day Saints indeed, and join in the great work of regeneration which this people are engaged in? J. L. Workman. Virgin, Utah.