--- 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: 5 published: 1908-03 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. 5 (March 1908): 390.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1105unse 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: improvementera1105unse start_page: 390 end_page: 390 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1908-03) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1105unse publication_year: 1908 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 1908, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Notes NOTES. The impossible becomes possible when a restless determination deals wiin it. Man was not created in God's image, his nostrils filled with God's breath, and all the earth placed under his dominion to meet with impossibilities at every step. The impossibilities are man's own creation, not God's, and for man voluntarily to surround himself with impossibilities is an insult to his Creator. Let him, rather, stride forth upon the earth, over which he wa§ given dominion; let him hold up his head; tighten his muscles; let the warm red blood surge through his veins and conquer. It is the man who brings things to pass in spite of difficulties, who honors his Maker, and is leader among men. The angel who wrestled with Jacob declared, "As a prince hast thou power with God and with man, and hast prevailed." Carlyle's definition of a king is "The man who can." The man who always can't is a puny creature, ever growing smaller and weaker. The man who can grows upon his own God-given strength until he becomes a giant, subduing the material things of the world, realizing his ideals, making the home, the community, the state better, and proving his right to be called one of the sons of God.— rAc Circle. All sorts and conditions of men have excellent" reasons for their position in life. Illustrated Bits tells of a tramp who had no illusions about the cause of his own condition: Mrs. Finehealth (at hotel entrance): No, I have no money to spare for you. I do not see why an able-bodied man like you should go about begging. Lazy Tramp: I s'pose, mum, it's fer about the same reason that a healthy woman like you boards at a hotel, instead of keeping house. The professor in charge of a Princeton class room, had been annoyed by the tardy entrance of a student. He pointedly ceased talking until the man took his seat. After lecture the student apologized. "Professor," said he, "my watch was fifteen minutes out of the way. It has bothered me a good deal lately, but after this I shall put no more faith in it." ■'It's not faith you want in it," replied the professor; "it's works."