--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Associations, Young Men’s Mutual Improvement collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 12 number: 11 published: 1909-09 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "America," *Improvement Era* 12, no. 11 (September 1909): 894.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera12011unse 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: improvementera12011unse start_page: 894 end_page: 894 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1909-09) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera12011unse 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. --- # America 894 IMPROVEMENT ERA. than beneficial, and that the best way to assist individuals is to educate and train them for the conditions of life, by making them self-supporting and fit for self-government. Republic Cottages, with Hospital at the Left. In studying the system one is often reminded of a saying of Joseph Smith. When asked how he governed his people, he stated that he taught them correct principles and they governed them- selves. The reminder is especially strong when we learn that the place where the young people are successfully operating the prin- ciple of self-government mentioned by Joseph Smith, is only about forty miles from where his first six followers organized themselves as ' 'Advocates of Truth'' and "Champions of Liberty,'' more than 79 years ago. Ithaca, New York. AMERICA. This land is consecrated unto those who shall be brought hither by the hand of God. If they shall serve him, according to the commandments he has given, it shall be a land of liberty uato them; and they shall never be brought into cap- tivity; if so, it shall be because of iniquity; for if iniquity shall abound, cursed shall be the land for their sakes; but unto the righteous it shall be blessed for- ever. Book of Mormon.