---
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: 11
number: 1
published: 1907-11
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Notes," *Improvement Era* 11, no. 1 (November 1907): 61.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1101unse
  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: improvementera1101unse
start_page: 61
end_page: 61
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1907-11)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1101unse
  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.
---

# Notes

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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