--- 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: 4 number: 5 published: 1901-03 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* 4, no. 5 (March 1901): 396.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0405unse 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: improvementera0405unse start_page: 396 end_page: 396 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1901-03) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0405unse publication_year: 1901 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 1901, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Notes — — 396 IMPROVEMENT ERA. the kingdom of God; and where the oracles of God are not, there the kingdom of God is not. Hence, the continuation of "the Kingdom," in this sense, has reached from Adam to the present; but, as the words are here used, it does not mean the uninterrupted continuation of The Church upon the earth, nor the constant existence of the Priesthood in organized capacity upon the earth. The Book of the Law of the Lord. What is the Book of the Law of the Lord? (See Note 11, Lesson 12, Manual 1900-1; also Doctrine and Covenants, Section 85: 1, 5. The Book of the Law of the Lord is a book in which were kept the names of the Saints who paid tithing — was the book of it tithing kept by the Prophet Joseph Smith during his lifetime. NOTES. "Of all forms of enterprise, dishonesty pays the shortest dividends." "Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl-chain of all virtues." "People who take pains never to do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anything more than they do," Elbert Hubbard. Napoleon said, "There shall be no Alps." Have you the will? Make a start; you know not what the future may bring forth. Confidence inspires confidence, and self-confidence begets success. We want you to believe more in your own power. Don't "If" yourself out of confidence and ambition. Don't "I can't" yourself from progressing, or "I don't think" yourself out of an opportunity —you cannot afford to. "I don't think," "I can't," "If," belong to the category of failures and regrets. "I can," "I must," "I will," have made the army of successful. Ad-School.