---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Baggarley, Maud
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: 'Baggarley, Maud, "Habit," *Improvement Era* 13, no. 5 (March 1910): 457.'
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: 457
end_page: 457
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.
---

# Habit


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SALVATION UNIVERSAL.                                457

they can complete unbroken a family            line.        This is done for the
purpose of making money, and is, of course, knavery of the worst
kind.     Those who are guilty of this trickery do not understand
salvation for the dead, and may not fully realize the wickedness of
such a course.
Latter-day Saints should be accurate in their recording, and
not depend entirely on the temple records for a history of their
work. Temple record books are prepared for the use of the Saints
so that each family may keep their own record of their dead.               This
should be done that the record may be handed down from genera-
tion to generation.       Remember it is out of the records            that the
dead are to be judged.          We should be orderly in all things, and
strive to get the spirit of the work, live our religion and work out
our   own salvation by assisting in the salvation of our dead, for we
without them cannot be made perfect.
In the    words of the prophet, I shall conclude,
Brethren, shall we not go on in so great a cause?          Go forward and
not backward.     Courage, brethren; and on, on to the victory!         Let your
hearts rejoice, and be exceedingly glad.       Let the earth break forth into
singing. Let the dead speak forth anthems of eternal praise to the King
Immanuel, who hath ordained before the world was, that which would
enable us to redeem them out of their prison; for the prisoners shall go
free.*
[the end.]

Habit.

A thought, a deed — my spirit is strong!
To the voice of conscience I say "be still,"
And then — ah then the evil is done:
Habit has fettered the giant Will.

But Will is king, though held   in thrall,

And perseverance his fetter breaks,
And when he conquers Habit bold,
Of her a docile slave he makes.
Maud Baggarley
* Doc. and Cov. 128: 22.