--- 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: 6 number: 5 published: 1903-03 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* 6, no. 5 (March 1903): 395.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0605unse 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: improvementera0605unse start_page: 395 end_page: 395 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1903-03) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0605unse publication_year: 1903 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 1903, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Notes NOTES. The fifth annual exhibition of the Utah Art Institute will be given in the old Social Hall, 41 State Street, Salt Lake City, from March 9, to April 9, inclusive. This will give the young people who visit conference a chance to view the work of the exhibitors. Admission at least three days of each week will be free, and the lovers of art should not miss this opportunity to witness some of the best Utah can produce. "Better faithful than famous," used to be one of Theodore Roose^ velt's characteristic sayings. It has ever been his rule of life. And be- cause he was faithful he has become famous. That in itself is giving his day a character to be proud of. The genuine men as a rule reap all the rewards nowadays—the men who do things. You have only to make up your mind to that, and stick to it, to win. The conception with which Christ makes us familiar is that of Fa- therhood. This is interwoven into the very texture of his teachings. The sense of it was the deepest element in his consciousness. With this, every other relation of God must be harmonized. In the light of this, all Christian doctrines are to be interpreted. Yet we shall miss the full significance of this final idea of God, if we do not find in it the sugges- tion of the parental, as well as the paternal, and make it include that which is so tnexpressibly dear in motherhood, as well as fatherhood.— Rev. E. E. Chivers. The secret of the undying vitality and perennial attractiveness of the sacred Scriptures lies in the fact that they come bringing the reve- lation of the Divine name. Under the illumination and guidance of the Divine Spirit there was wrought into the consciousness of the Jew of old a sublime conception of God such as no other people ever attained. From the background of the Old Testament Scriptures there stands out in clear relief the Living God, separable from all phenomena—a veritable being, clothed in perfection. With the majesty and splendor of his holiness, too, is blended unspeakable tenderness. He is an approachable God, entering into most intimate relations with men. The world owes an unspeakable debt to the Jew for the conception of God with which he enriched human thought—Dr. E. E. Chivers.