---
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: 11
published: 1903-09
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. 11 (September 1903): 862.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0611unse
  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: improvementera0611unse
start_page: 862
end_page: 862
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1903-09)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0611unse
  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

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860                         IMPROVEMEN1 ERA.

        These are they who are honorable         men    of the   earth,   who are
blinded by the craftiness of men.       (Verses 72 to 75, inclusive.)

        So far as this quotation goes, there       is   no distinct statement
of a requirement of baptism as a condition              for entrance into the
terrestrial kingdom.
        With reference to those who died without                 law, God being
just,   he would never place any of          his children at a disadvantage

because they had not obeyed a principle or ordinance of which
they had never heard.
        The only indication of a probability of baptism being essen-
tial   for entrance to the terrestrial kingdom is in the fact that the
                 were taught the Gospel by Jesus, that they
"spirits in prison"
"might be judged according to men in the flesh." Baptism is a
requirement of the latter when they hear the Gospel.                      Another
point in this connection       is   that the practice of baptism for the
dead was conducted, according to Paul's statement, in the time of
Christ.     (1 Cor. 15: 29.)    Still, in   the absence of a revealed direct
statement, it would be questionable to assume an "unqualified posi-
tion on either side of the question.
        The resurrection has a direct and important connection with
the kingdoms in which     the children of God are destined to
dwell in eternity.   Tne writer suggests that the reader peruse
that portion of the eighty-eighth section of the Book of Doctrine
and Covenants embodied in verses from 95 to 99, inclusive. The
classes who shall enter into the celestial and terrestrial glories
are therein defined.   Then come the remainder, to be otherwise
disposed of:

        And again, another trump     shall sound, which is the third trump;
and then cometh the spirits of men who are to be judged, and are found
under condemnation:
        And these are the rest of the       dead, and they shall not live again
until the thousand years are ended, neither        again until the end of the
earth.
        And another trump shall sound, which is the fourth trump, saying,
There are found among those who are to remain until that great and last
day, even unto the end, who shall remain filthy still. (Verses 100 to 102,
inclusive.)

        It will be   observed that those destined to enter the telestial