---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Meakin, John P.
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 13
number: 5
published: 1910-03
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Meakin, John P., "Greetings 1910," *Improvement Era* 13, no. 5 (March 1910): 431.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera135unse
  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: improvementera135unse
start_page: 431
end_page: 431
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1910-03)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera135unse
  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.
---

# Greetings 1910


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THE CROWN OF INDIVIDUALITY.                                        431

slumber of Peter with the words:                     "Could ye not watch with me
one hour?"         We have faced a new tragedy of the soul — alone.
The sculptured figure may never realize what he has done.
Real, honest effort, no matter how slight seem results, no
matter how weak seem the progress, has no time for mere parade.
Their high motives that inspire are: love, honor, truth, justice or
those others that lead the ranks of their                        high purpose.        The
glowing realization           that     their    work    is     serious   inspires them.
Their consecrated effort to rise to the heights of their highest
nature    — gives a royal importance that banishes                  trivialities.

True importance           is           The large duties, cares
always simple.
and responsibilities of those seeking to do great things give them
natural dignity and ease.    They have the simple grace of the bir-
den-bearers of India, who carry heavy loads on their heads and, in
the carrying learn how to carry them, erect— with fearless step.
There is in them no trace of the               — pose of the strenuous.             Men of
serious effort think too much of their work to think much of them-
selves.     Their great interest, enthusiasm, and absorption in their
world of fine accomplishments eclipse all littleness.                     They are liv-
ing their life,   — not playing a part.
They are burning incense at
the shrine of a great purpose— not to their own vanity. They ever
have poise    — not pose.
(The next      article    in    this   series    "The Hungers       of   Life," will

—
appear in the April number of the Era.)

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Greetings 1910.
from one who loves God and his brothers -all of them.
To the Improvement Era.

each day of the new year unfold life's choicest
M7W  gifts to everyone in your home circle       Cast out from
Eden the cactus and the nettle and in their places culti-
vate the lily— purity, and the nv/rtle— friendship; and so make
earth— heaven, and human life a delightful melody- May roses
bloom by vour cottage gate and may flowering vines ever
cluster about its walls.
John T €Meakin.

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