---
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: 13
number: 3
published: 1910-01
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Rapid Transit," *Improvement Era* 13, no. 3 (January 1910): 251.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1303unse
  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: improvementera1303unse
start_page: 251
end_page: 251
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1910-01)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1303unse
  publication_year: 1910
  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 1910, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Rapid Transit


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SALVATION UNIVERSAL.                                251

There     is       also    in        Great Britain Lodge's, Debritt's and Burkes'
Peerages and Visitations which are invaluable to the searcher of
genealogical information in those lands. These numerous societies
and individuals                 in    the world, upon   whom the spirit of Elijah has
fallen to this extent at least,                 are compiling, printing and distrib-
uting these records of the dead, faster than the Saints can, with
their    present facilities                and understanding of the work,            obtain
them:          In      fact,      they have far     outstripped us in the race, and
while     we sometimes are given to boasting of the great work we
are doing for the dead, it is as nothing, a mere drop in the bucket.
These people and societies are helping us, should we not take
every advantage of their labors and stand in the forefront, mag-
nifying            our calling and proving our birthright as the children of
Ephraim?
Thus the hearts of the children are gradually, but surely,
turning towards their fathers.                      The   spirit   of this   work    is   now
taking hold of the hearts of the people of Germany, Scandinavia
and the continent of Europe.                        And   why are they doing this?
Because their hearts have been drawn out to their fathers, through
the restoration of the keys of salvation for the dead, and they
are energetically and faithfully laboring, but all the while uncon-
scious of the full significance and worth of their labors, simply
because the work appeals to them and they are fascinated by it.
Surely they shall receive their reward!

[to be continued.]
Salt    Lake City, Utah.

Rapid Transit.
In response to               growing demands in his home, Henry Kitchell Web-
ster,   author of The Sky Man, once went to his father's house, borrowed
the family high-chair and started taking it home by hand.                     Not only did
he have to wait long for his car, but when it finally came                   its   conductor
was a humorist.
"Aren't you pretty big for that chair?" that official ventured.
"Yes," admitted Webster, wearily, "I grew up while waiting for
'

the car.       '
Success.