---
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: 8
number: 7
published: 1905-05
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Love and Work," *Improvement Era* 8, no. 7 (May 1905): 538.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0807unse
  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: improvementera0807unse
start_page: 538
end_page: 538
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1905-05)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0807unse
  publication_year: 1905
  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 1905, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Love and Work

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this order of procedure is reversed, a person is trespassing on dangerous ground.
      Ref erring to the extract from President Young's sermon, what
a wonderful exhibition of the power of the Almighty was witnessed
when Enoch's city was translated Hail to the day of its return to
                                      !
earth, when the earth is prepared for its reception!
Salt Lake City.
                          LOVE AND WORK.
              " 4 I love you, mother,' said little John;
              Then forgetting work his cap went on,
              And he was off to the garden swing,
              Leaving his mother the wood to bring.
              •"I love you, mother,' said rosy Nell,
              'I love you better than tongue can tell.'
              Then she teased and pouted full half the day
              Till her mother rejoiced when she went to play.
              " 'I love you, mother,' said little Fan,
              'Today I'll help you all I can.
              How glad I am that school doesn't keep.'
              So she rocked the baby till it fell asleep.
              "Then stepping softly she took the broom
              And swept the floor and dusted the room.
              Busy and happy all day was she,
              Cheerful and helpful as child could be.
              " 'I love you, mother,' again they said,
              Three little children going to bed.
              Now how do you think that mother guessed
              Which of them really loved her best?"
                                                            —   Selected.