---
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: 12
published: 1901-10
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. 12 (October 1901): 951.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0412unse
  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: improvementera0412unse
start_page: 951
end_page: 951
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1901-10)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0412unse
  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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EDITOR'S TABLE. 951

In such a case, the person making the request to
be severed
from The Church, should be kindly labored with, the object
being
to try and have him change his mind, or induce him
to repent of
so dreadful a step. Then, if success crowns such effort and you
succeed in arousing a spirit of repentance in him, he may be saved.
If, however, he continues determined to
withdraw from The
Church, and no reasonable effort proves sufficient to induce him
to
change his mind, then a formal action should be instituted against
him, in the regularly provided way, with a view to excommunication
for apostasy. No action should be taken against any one else in
the family except those who personally demand a severance from
The Church. Let the names of the children remain as long as
there may be any hope of their repentance, or of a desire on their
part to renew their fellowship with the people of God. This pro-
ceeding applies in organized wards as well as in missions.

CLOSE OF VOLUME IV.

This number of the Era closes the fourth volume. The Gen-
eral Board are very much encouraged with the prospects for the
coming year. Already large numbers have applied for renewals of
their subscriptions, and we trust these orders will be supplemented
by one of the largest subscription lists that has ever heretofore
been given to our magazine. We invite those who have stood by
us in the past to still continue on our lists, and trust that many
new readers may be added. A reference to the prospectus for
volume V, in this number, will clearly demonstrate that the Era
offers to its subscribers full value for their money. Presidents
and other officers of associations should take the matter of can-
vassing their various wards and stakes in hand early so that this
work may be attended to without delay. Grateful to the officers
of the Y. M. M. I. A. for the past assistance which they have ren-
dered, and asking their loyal support for the future, we close this
volume with thanks to the Almighty that the Era has been made
an instrument for good, been of benefit to The Church, and a
means for the religious, moral and educational advancement of the
young people of Zion in all the world.