--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Horatius Bonar collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 3 number: 11 published: 1900-09 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Horatius Bonar, "He Liveth Long Who Liveth Well," *Improvement Era* 3, no. 11 (September 1900): 843.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera311unse 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: improvementera311unse start_page: 843 end_page: 843 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1900-09) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera311unse 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. --- # He Liveth Long Who Liveth Well A NEPHITE'S COMMANDMENTS TO HIS THREE SONS. 843 "bring you down unto repentance. 0 my son, I desire that ye should deny the justice of God no more. Do not endeavor to excuse yourself in the least point, because of your sins, by denying the justice of God, but do you let the justice of God, and his mercy, and his long suffering, have full sway in your heart; but let it bring you down to the dust in humility. After these instructions, corrections, warnings, exhortations and vindications of God in all his dealings with the children of men, Alma closes as he began, in the loving, sympathetic tones of the father: "And now, 0 my son, ye are called of God to preach the word unto this people. And now, my son, go thy way, declare the word with truth and soberness, that thou mayest bring souls unto repentance, that the great plan of mercy may have claim upon them. And may God grant unto you even according to my words. Amen." HE LIVETH LONG WHO LIVETH WELL. He liveth long who liveth well; All else is life but flung away. He liveth longest who can tell Of true things truly done each day. Then fill each hour with what will last; Buy up the moments as they go; The life above when this is past Is the ripe fruit of life below. HORATIUS BONAR.