---
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: 8
published: 1901-06
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. 8 (June 1901): 631.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0408unse
  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: improvementera0408unse
start_page: 631
end_page: 631
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1901-06)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0408unse
  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

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NOTES.


        "Honorable ambition is the leaven that raises the whole mass of
mankind.      Ideals, visions, are the stepping stones by which we rise to

higher things."

     "The greatest requisite for advancment is to be fitted for the place
above you. Many a young man has failed of promotion because he was
not fitted for the opening when it came; and had not tried to see how
 much good he could do for his employer, but how little."
      Truth's Reflex, a monthly paper which has been published in Kansas
                                                               been discon-
 City for the benefit of the Southwestern States mission, has
                                                             right, and has
 tinued. The paper has always been a staunch defender of the
                                                                   of the
 carried into many homes of the Latter-day Saints,in that district
              spirit of truth and peace. It has been fearless in present-
 country, the
     the restored gospel, maintaining always a spirit of charity
                                                                 towards
 ing
 all.    It has done missionary work in that field for
                                                         twenty-eight months,

 and now at the close of that time, it asks, and we believe is entitled
                                                                        to,

 "an honorable release."  Those subscribers of the Reflex who desire to
 obtain the Era may  secure it at the special missionary rate, one dollar
                                                        i?e/Zex will become
 per year, and we trust that many of the friends of the
 readers of the Improvement Era.