--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Crocheron, George W. collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 7 number: 11 published: 1904-09 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'George W. Crocheron, "Self Examination," *Improvement Era* 7, no. 11 (September 1904): 834.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0711unse 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: improvementera0711unse start_page: 834 end_page: 834 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1904-09) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0711unse 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. --- # Self Examination SELF-EXAMINATION. Oifend not your sense of modesty by indulging in improper thoughts. Pure thoughts are the result of a conscientious conception of virtuous reflections. Every Latter-day Saint should constitute himself a self-examining board to sit in judgment upon his daily thoughts and actions. It ought to greatly benefit the individual by so doing. One's weak points should claim special consideration, thus forestalling the commission of acts or speech prejudicial to good manners, and the peace of society. A preparatory course of self-instruction, having for its primary object the moral and intellectual improvement of the person, should result in much good to those adopting the practice. If one can see the propriety of adopting this method, humbly suggested, what an incalculable amount of happiness could be secured! — George W. Crocheron.