---
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: 8
published: 1905-06
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "A Worthy Motto—Notice—Notes," *Improvement Era* 8, no. 8 (June 1905): 630.'
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: 630
end_page: 630
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.
---

# A Worthy Motto—Notice—Notes

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—
 the building up of the     kingdom of God.           And father's family havelooked upon Joseph F, Smith as a second father, and when our father was
 away from home, many of us would go to Joseph F. Smith for advice and
counsel; and we learned to love him; and know him to be kind and affectionate, and today he has proven himself to be a true friend to the
widows of President Snow.       The more the wicked revile and persecute,
the stronger our love will grow for President Smith and those connected
 with him.
                                  Respectfully,
                                                              Frank H. Snow.
                          A WORTHY MOTTO.
         In addition to the general motto of the Young Men's Mutual
Improvement Associations, "The Glory of God is Intelligence," the
associations of Wayne Stake of Zion, over which Elder M. W.
Mansfield is superintendent with Seth Taft and B. H. Robison
assistants, have adopted the following: "A Crown for a Prize at
the Top." Here's wishing that you may reach your aim!
                   NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS.
        Please write your names and addresses on       all   packages returned to
the Era or the General Secretary, to save error, and to enable us to
identify packages.
                                  NOTES.
        He who is doing no good to others,     is    doing much harm to himself.
        Prosperity becomes a   poison   when    it   grows at the expense of
piety.
        Having read the story, "Man Proposes," contained in the March Era,
I suggest    that the following quotation from Cicero is the moral of the
piece:     "When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to
reach the second, or even the third rank;" or in other words, "It is better to have loved^and lost, than never to have loved at all."            Lawrencer
A. Miner, Tahiti.