---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Small, John H.
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 5
number: 11
published: 1902-09
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'John H. Small, "The Life Worth Living," *Improvement Era* 5, no. 11 (September 1902): 890.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0511unse
  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: improvementera0511unse
start_page: 890
end_page: 890
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1902-09)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0511unse
  publication_year: 1902
  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 1902, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# The Life Worth Living
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not, lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ, who is the image of
God, should shine unto them.*

      Being "the express image of his person," then, Jesus becomes
a revelation of the person of God to the children of men, as well
as a revelation of       his character and attributes.   Again, you have
the scriptures saying:

  For it pleased the Father that in him [Christ Jesus] should all full-
ness dwell.   *  *   *  For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the God-
head bodily.f

      All there is, then, in God, there is in Jesus Christ.      All that
Jesus Christ is, God is.       And Jesus Christ is an immortal man of
flesh and    bone and spirit, and with his Father and the Holy Spirit
will reign eternally in      the heavens.
                              (To be concluded.)

                         THE LIFE WORTH LIVING.

      The only life worth living is that which is stirred by ambition
and which is fortified and promoted by industry.      But the object
must be worthy and the methods must be honorable. After all
the main purpose sought is contentment and happiness. Some
follow a mistaken idea and never reach the goal.            Wealth, posi-
tion, and power do        not always bring these two jewels. He who
carries sunshine along the pathway,    who speaks a kind word of
encouragement to the disconsolate, who condoles with sorrow, who
remembers the poor, who encourages the struggling, who raises
the fallen, who stands by the right because it is right, he it is who
has found contentment and happiness and whose life is radiant and
beautiful.   The man who thus tempers his ambition and curbs his
will finds genuine pleasure in success and the world rejoices with

him in his daily progress.                         —
                                              John H. Small.

      * II Cor. iv: 4.

      t Col. i: 19; ii: 9.