--- 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: 10 number: 12 published: 1907-10 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Duty and Love," *Improvement Era* 10, no. 12 (October 1907): 978.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera10012unse 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: improvementera10012unse start_page: 978 end_page: 978 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1907-10) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera10012unse publication_year: 1907 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 1907, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Duty and Love DUTY AND LOVE. "It is better to do right because we love to do right, than be- cause it is a duty. But if we do right because it is a duty, God will soon add his Spirit and grace to enable us to do our duty be- cause we love the light." Manual, 1907-8.