---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Grace Ingles Frost
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 8
number: 8
published: 1905-06
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Grace Ingles Frost, "Learn," *Improvement Era* 8, no. 8 (June 1905): 566.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0808unse
  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: improvementera0808unse
start_page: 566
end_page: 566
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1905-06)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0808unse
  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.
---

# Learn

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was still praying.      He was putting      his long pent-up sermon into
a series of thanks to the Lord.
     Finally he closed, and sat down.
       Gravely the President turned to the choir, behind^ him, and
announced in his resounding voice,
    "Choir, please sing, and we'll dismiss."
     The writer has been commissioned by the Young family to
prepare, at some future time, a life of Brigham Young  and for ;
this purpose desires to gather as many incidents and anecdotes
of him as possible.       Will those   who have such material, kindlr
write the same down and send it to Mrs Susa Young Gates?
      672 N. Ist W. St., Salt Lake City, Utah.
                                   LEARN.
                        (For the Improvement Era.)
                        Learn to live in the present
                          Or future, not in the past;
                        Moping over the shadows,
                          Will make them forever last.
                        Learn to live for the orphan,
                          In need of a parent's carf-;
                        Give to him of thy substance,
                          As well as of thy prayer.
                        Learn to live for the aged,
                          And to meet them with a smile;
                        Twill help them on life's journey
                          For many a weary mile.
                        Learn to give to the needy,
                          Not from thy hand, but heart;
                        Let no suffering creature
                          Unaided from thee depart.
                        Just learn to live for others,
                          'Twill bring of joy great wealth,
                        And keep you near that brother
                          Who never thought of self.
                                                 Grace Ingles FrostSaU LaP.e City, Utah,