--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Scott collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 4 number: 11 published: 1901-09 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Scott, "Life and After," *Improvement Era* 4, no. 11 (September 1901): 834.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0411unse 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: improvementera0411unse start_page: 834 end_page: 834 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1901-09) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0411unse 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. --- # Life and After 834 IMPROVEMENT ERA. fifteen feet above the level of the Dead Sea. A grand view it is from the Mt. of Olives, over the mountain, and a part of the Dead Sea. After a more than three hours' ride on the railroad from Jerusalem, we came to Joppa, which lies on the east coast of the Mediterranean. The surrounding plains of Joppa are the most beautiful and fruitful in the land of Judea. The city has a popu- lation of about thirty-five thousand, the majority being Mohamme- dans. We visited the place where Tabitha was raised from the dead by Peter the apostle. (Acts 9: 41.) Her tomb which is also there, we saw. We went to Simon the tanner's house, where Peter had the vision. (Acts 10: 11, 12.) The house, however, let it be known, has been rebuilt, but it had a flat roof, on which we stood, and we also drank water from Simon's well, which water is very good. The land of Palestine has an area of eleven thou- sand square miles, over which I have had the pleasure to travel from the extreme north, to Bethlehem in the south; from the river Jordan, east, to the Mediterranean, in the west. Thus I have had a life-long desire realized, for which I am happy indeed; and I must say that the experience which I have thus gained, and the sights seen, shall always be treasured fondly in my recollec- tion, as pearls of great price gathered from the shores of the ocean of life. LIFE AND AFTER. What is this world? A dream within a dream—as we grow older each step is an awakening. The youth awakes as he thinks from childhood—the full-grown man despises the pursuits of youth as visionary—the man looks on manhood as a feverish dream. old The grave the sleep?— no; last the it is and last awakening. final — Sir Walter Scott.