--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Lincoln, Abraham 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: 'Abraham Lincoln, "How to Rise," *Improvement Era* 12, no. 7 (May 1909): 536.' 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: 536 end_page: 536 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. --- # How to Rise — respect for law, human and divine, scrupulous honesty, fairness and fidelity. They should be taught civics, that they may be pre- pared for the duties of citizenship. They should be taught some form of handiwork, the use of tools for the boys, and the needle and domestic work for the girls, so that they can get a living by their hands when need be. The matter of how to teach the children is largely a matter of environment, of conditions; and what would appeal to my children would perhaps have no effect upon others, but it is safe to teach every child to pray, not only with the lips, but by all means from the heart. Teach him faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, and how much we are dependent upon his mercy, for our every blessing, and when that love and veneration is thoroughly instilled in the hearts, the task you have set yourself, to make your children kind, loving and obe- dient, is accomplished. No better or more successful way to do this can be found than by example. Instead of sending our chil- dren to bed with the mere injunction, "Don't forget your pray- ers," let us, when it is time to retire, call our family together, and join with them in returning thanks to our Heavenly Father for his watchful care during the day, and entreat a continuation of the same during the night. These are my views, and while they may not be suitable for all natures, I feel that they, at least, have the merit of being as simple a means to the desired end as can be advanced. Sugar City, Idaho. HOW TO RISE. The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him. . . . Suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation. There may sometimes be un- generous attempts to keep a young man down: and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury. Cast about and see if this feeling has not injured every person you have ever known to fall into it. Abraham Lincoln.