---
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: 12
published: 1906-10
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Questions and Answers: Revelation on War," *Improvement Era* 9, no. 12 (October 1906): 977.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0912unse
  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: improvementera0912unse
start_page: 977
end_page: 977
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1906-10)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0912unse
  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.
---

# Questions and Answers: Revelation on War

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—

 NOTES.

 We cannot help anybody farther up than we stand ourselves. The right part in a quarrel belongs to the one who first shows the part of forgiveness.

 If all the rest of the world seems crooked, it is a sure sign that you need to set yourself straight.

 A man isn't to blame for what he was when he was born. He is to blame if he doesn't make some improvement on it.

 The human race is divided into two classes— those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit and inquire, "Why wasn't it done the other way?" 0. W. Holmes.

 "Time past is gone, thou canst not it recall; Time is thou hast, improve that portion small; Time future is not and may never be. Time present is the only time for thee."

 A mother is responsible for early restraint of her child. The work which schoolmasters and legislators cannot do for the sturdy and rebellious youth, or for the stalwart and ungovernable man, might have been done by the earlier and gentler restraints of a mother's firm and faithful tenderness.— Mrs. Sigourney.

 Many a father who has won his way from poverty to riches by hard and

grinding toil makes the mistake of deciding that his boy shall not know the

drudgery of daily routine, and brings the lad up in idleness, with all the pocketmoney he can spend. Attention has lately been called to such a one [Thaw, the millionaire murderer of White, the New York architect], now awaiting trial for he was still unmurder, whose father gave him a thousand dollars a month while a boarding schoo It is not surprising that he fell der twenty-one and a pupil in 1.

on the pathway paved for him with slippery gold pieces. — Fou^A's Companion. "Paderewski rented rooms in a certain flat in order to practice unmolested.

A friend, hearing of this, thought it would be a good opportunity to learn from directly above. The first the master's practice hours, so he rented the rooms over about five hundred day of practice, Paderewski played the same passage times. The friend paid the rent and left. great men and women in "It is this dogged, critical repetition which makes Make every day's practice successful, no matter how little all the walks of life.

the success may be. The way to reach the ideal tomorrow, is to make today a not worry." day of work instead of a day of hope. Work, do