--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Lund, Anthon H. collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 12 number: 7 published: 1909-05 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Anthon H. Lund, "Guard the Children," *Improvement Era* 12, no. 7 (May 1909): 528.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1207unse 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: improvementera1207unse start_page: 528 end_page: 528 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1909-05) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1207unse 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. --- # Guard the Children — . — 628 IMP It VEMEN T ER A This let me feel — that I am myself and no other, and yet that independent self shall stand a link in the chain of all earthly things. Unessential, perhaps, for others I may appear to be, but I owe it to myself and kind that wheresoever I am or in what cause acting, that I be sound and clean. Better to be a savage with nature's instincts of virtue than to be panoplied in purple with a turbid heart! And what speaks history of the jut unf We may look with calm eyes to the very end. It is the working out of the law of the gods. The fittest shall survive. That which has been may be again; there may be groanings and travailings enough, let us not see the conflict with its pain and sorrow, but assuredly we may know the conclusion. Eight virtuous souls under God's command may regenerate the world, if purged of life by his righteous wrath; and eight hun- dred may work out that end the more speedily; but, if happily a people shall be found, clean of heart, established in love of truth, then hark ye kingdoms of the world that are builded in pride and pollution: one without shall knock at thy gates; admit him thou must, he is the messenger of the Omnipotent: his message, "Thou haM been weighed in the balance and found wanting." Pocatello, Idaho. GUARD THE CHILDREN. Parents should place a guard between their children and evil. Parents would not permit their children to go where there was smallpox, they should be equally careful to keep them away from immoral contagion. We wanted to get the evil of liquor out of the way. We wanted to do away with the places where liquor was sold. But we did not succeed in getting laws to help us. We should be all the more on our guard, to shield and protect our young people from these evils. We had also hoped to have a law passed suppressing Sunday amusements, but we did not get it; but let us use our influence with our children to keep the Sabbath holy. We want to make our henes so that our children may feel there is do better place. We believe that serving the Lord gives joy, and that we should be joyful on the Lord's day and keep it holy as he intended. Young people should be en- couraged to enjoy themselves at home. Fresi'lent Anthon //. Lund, at the 19th Annual t'onfrrenre of the Church.