---
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: 7
number: 8
published: 1904-06
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* 7, no. 8 (June 1904): 627.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0708unse
  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: improvementera0708unse
start_page: 627
end_page: 627
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1904-06)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0708unse
  publication_year: 1904
  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 1904, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Notes

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NOTES.

      Childhood's troubles generally go down with the setting sun.

     It is the man   who has "zip" in him that makes the world move.
      It costs more to satisfy a vice   than to feed a family.

      The farm is nearest to heaven of any spot on earth.

     Luck means rising at six o'clock in the morning, and not spending
more than half your income; minding your own business and not med-
dling with other people's; trusting in God and your own resources; keep-
ing your appointments, and leaving nothing worth doing to chance.

      "The steadiest boy ever born ought to take a day off now and then.
The nose that is kept close to the grindstone is bound to grow ohorter
by and by.    The oldest person in the world is a boy who has reached
ninety while still on the sunny side of twenty."

             Thy burden is God's gift,
               And it will make the bearer calm and strong;
             Yet, lest it press too heavily and long,
               He says, "Cast it on me
             And it shall easy be."
               And those who heed his voice
             And seek to give it back in trustful prayer,
               Have quiet hearts that never can despair,
             And hope lights up the way
               Upon the darkest day.
                                                             —   Selected.

      In discussing the advisability of prayer at the opening of meetings
of the convention which framed the Articles of Confederation, in 1787,
Franklin said, "In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we
were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for divine
protection.  Our prayers, sir, were heard, and they were graciously an-
swered.   * * * And have we now forgotten that powerful Friend, or
do   we imagine we no longer need its assistance? I have lived, sir, a
long time, and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this
truth, that God governs in the affairs of men.       And, if a sparrow can
not fall to the ground   without his notice, is it probable that an empire
can rise without his aid?"