--- 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: 9 number: 4 published: 1906-02 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "A Correction," *Improvement Era* 9, no. 4 (February 1906): 339.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0904unse 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: improvementera0904unse start_page: 339 end_page: 339 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1906-02) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0904unse publication_year: 1906 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 1906, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # A Correction EDITORS TABLE. 339 path cannot be overestimated. Hence, the duty of listening respectfully and attentively to the men who deliver them. The doctrines of the gospel, and Church restraint, are like schoolmasters to keep us in the line of duty. If it were not for these schoolmasters, we would perish, and be overcome by the evil about us. We see men who have freed themselves from Church restraint and from the precious doctrines of the gospel, who perish about us every day! They boast of freedom, but are the slaves of sin. Let me admonish you to permit the gospel school-master to teach you self-respect, and to keep you pure, and free from secret sins that bring not only physical punishment, but sure spiritual death. You cannot hide the penalty which God has affixed to them — a penalty often worse than death. It is the Iqss of selfrespect, it is physical debility, it is insanity, indifference to all powers that are good and noble — all these follow in the wake of the sinner in secret, and of the unchaste. Unchastity, furthermore, not only fixes its penalty on the one who transgresses, but reaches out unerring punishment, to the third and fourth generation, making not only the transgressor a wreck, but mayhap involving scores of people in his direct line of relationship, disrupting family ties, breaking the hearts of parents, and causing a black stream of sorrow to overwhelm their lives. Such a seeming simple thing, then, as proper conduct in a house of worship leads to good results in many respects. Good conduct leads to self-respect, which creates purity of thought and action. Pure thought and noble action lead to a desire to serve God in the strength of manhood, and to become subservient to the schoolmasters. Church restraint, and the doctrines of the gospel of Christ. Joseph F. Smith. A CORRECTION. On page 225, of the last number of the Improvement Era, we printed the beautiful poem of Mrs. Ruth May Fox, * 'A Winter's Frolic. " It was somewhat marred by typographical errors in the last line of the first stanza, and in the fourth line of the second stanza, the first error being the word violets used for