--- 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: 9 published: 1904-07 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "The Baby’’s Lesson," *Improvement Era* 7, no. 9 (July 1904): 664.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0709unse 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: improvementera0709unse start_page: 664 end_page: 664 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1904-07) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0709unse 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. --- # The Baby's Lesson rival sects cryinp:, "Lo, here is Christ." The devil is the author of all contentions and division, and although the translators of 1611, in their revision, endeavored to put forth a Bible which should be acceptable to the two great religious parties of that day, yet they failed to preserve peace, unity and concord. On almost every page of the history of Christendom, there is evidence of the devil's handiwork. Wherefore, in the words of Micah, "The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof t'each for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money; yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, Is not the Lord among us?" THE BABY'S LESSON. She was only a golden-haired little tot, barely two years old. But she was so bright and quick, so dainty and sunny that when she was taken sick, the whole house seemed in mourning. "How is baby?" asked papa, forlornly, as he came in at night. Dot heard him, for the nursery was just at the head of the stairs, and the door was open. And back came a faint little voice, half pleading, half laughing, half commanding, "Peak as 'oo do when 'oo're laugh- ing, papa!" That was the baby's lesson, and the whole household remembered it, even after Dot was all well again. It's hard to make the voice cheerful, and the face sunny, at all times. But it is pleasanter and more helpful for those around us when we do. Selected from Herald of Union, Mammoth, Utah.