---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - H. W. Naisbitt
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 4
number: 1
published: 1900-11
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'H. W. Naisbitt, "Time and Eternity," *Improvement Era* 4, no. 1 (November 1900): 4.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0401unse
  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: improvementera0401unse
start_page: 4
end_page: 4
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1900-11)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0401unse
  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.
---

# Time and Eternity

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4                      IMPROVEMENT ERA.


the press which recognized the bravery and patriotism of the in-
habitants of Utah.
     This unfortunate episode introduces the second governor of
Utah, Alfred Cumming, who was commissioned in July, 1857, and
who entered Salt Lake City, respectfully treated and acknowledged
as governor, on April 12, 1858, after the peace arrangements of
Colonel Thomas L. Kane had become effective.
     Of the rare abilities, staunch character, and the master-mind
of Governor Young, nothing need be said in this sketch. They are
known to all, and his genius is apparent in every city and village
of our prosperous commonwealth.
    President Young died in Salt Lake City on August 29, 1877,
beloved by the whole people whose religious as well as temporal
leader and guide he had been for thirty-three years.




                     TIME AND ETERNITY.




        What is Time? But a moment, the present, the now;
        It is ours when we have it, when past 'tis no more,
        It belongs to Eternities gone, while we wait,
        For the next one which comes from Eternity's shore.

        Eternity! What? No beginning, no end!
        The universe swings in its infinite sweep;
       'Tis the day of the Gods, unbroken, intact,
       No finite can grasp it, or climb up its steep.
                                                   H. W. Naisbitt.