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Improvement Era, vol. 11, no. 1, November 1907, p. 61

Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations

NOTES. To live our religion is just as hard as to die for it. He that endures to the end shall be saved. President Anthon H. Lund. "In all your troubles, go to the Lord for help; in all your joys, go to the Lord in praise and thanksgiving."— Dr. George H. Brimhall in White and Blue. One branch of the Transvaal legislature, at the urging of the ministry, has voted to present to King Edward the Cullinan diamond, found in the Premier mine in 1905. The stone uncut was four and one half inches long, two and three-quarters inches deep, and two and one-half inches broad. It is valued at seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. It has been impossible until the present to find a pur- chaser, as there are few persons able to spend three quarters of a million dollars on a single stone. If it had been sold to outsiders, the Transvaal government share, under would have received four hundred and fifty thousand dollars as its the law which makes it the owner of three-fifths oOuch stones. The mine own- the diamond. ers will receive three hundred thousand dollars for their interest in