---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Markham, Edwin
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 12
number: 6
published: 1909-04
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Markham, Edwin, "Use Money to Make Men," *Improvement Era* 12, no. 6 (April 1909): 418.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1206unse
  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: improvementera1206unse
start_page: 418
end_page: 418
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1909-04)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1206unse
  publication_year: 1909
  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 1909, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Use Money to Make Men

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USE MONEY TO MAKE MEN,
We discover in the world only what we bring to it; the lion
looking into the pool sees a lion, the jackal sees a jackal.
The divine life has in it a beautiful paradox, All spiritual
possessions dwindle if we hoard them, increase if we share them.
In the great day of God that is coming, we shall not use men
to make money: we shall use money to make men. — Edwin
Markham.