---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - John T. Moore
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 5
number: 2
published: 1901-12
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'John T. Moore, "Achievement," *Improvement Era* 5, no. 2 (December 1901): 114.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0502unse
  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: improvementera0502unse
start_page: 114
end_page: 114
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1901-12)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0502unse
  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.
---

# Achievement

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114- IMPROVEMENT ERA

and God's help to the top. Remember, He who became the great-
est of became the humblest and lowliest of all. The
all, first

whole, vast, upward region is before you. Oh, what a career is
yours, if you but will it!
"But, my boy, in all you do, trust in God. In all your trials,
and you will have many,see beyond the sore present into the blessed
future. Your faith must never forsake you. God is behind
everything, remember that. Outside, the air is dark, and the
black clouds hang low over the earth, yet if you think a moment,
you will know that out beyond, above the clouds, shines unhindered
the glorious sun. So it is with God and His providences. And
now, we will read one chapter from the Bible and go to bed.
Harald, get it for me."
But Harald did not move, and when the grandmother looked
down at him, she saw his tired head resting against her knee. The
boy was asleep. Not that he was disinterested in his grandmother's
words, for she often talked to him in the same encouraging strain,
but he was so tired, and tonight he had had an extra plate of mush
for supper.
Grandmother said no more, but ran her fingers through the
brown hair, smiling to herself.
( To be continued.)

ACHIEVEMENT.

'Tis the coward who stops at misfortune;

'Tis the knave who changes each day;

'Tis the fool who wins half the battle,
Then throws all his chances away.

There's little in fife but labor,
And tomorrow may prove but a dream,
Success is the bride of Endeavor,
And luck but a meteor's gleam,
John T. Moore, in Success.