--- 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: 6 published: 1910-04 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "April 6," *Improvement Era* 13, no. 6 (April 1910): 567.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1306unse 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: improvementera1306unse start_page: 567 end_page: 567 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1910-04) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1306unse 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. --- # April 6 EDITOR'S TABLE. 567 ment. It is best to stay at home, and to develop the uncounted resources that lie at our own doors. God has given us a glorious land, full of material riches, laden with opportunity, and rich in healthful environment. Let us think well before we change these for new, before we give up familiar and cherished scenes and tried and trusted friends for new environment and strange associates. To say nothing of other things — the need of developing the land and fortifying our strength in the stakes of Zion, — the chances are that the energy put forth in tearing up and moving, if used in the direction of improvement and betterment of our present surroundings, would bring us more satisfaction and greater returns than we would ever receive from the contemplated change. Stay at home, and if you have means to invest buy farm-land at reasonable prices and cul- tivate it— is good counsel to young men. Joseph F. Smith. April 6. For the marvelous incidents clustering about this day every Latter-day Saint has reason to be sincerely thankful. On this day, the probable birthday of the Messiah, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was regularly organized and established by command of God and agreeable to the laws of our glorious land of liberty, peace and plenty. By the will and commandment of God, also, Joseph Smith the prophet had been previously called and ordained the first elder, and inspired of the Holy Ghost to lay the foundations of the Church, and to build it up unto the most holy faith. For this divine call, and the wonderful events that have resulted, let us thank our Heavenly Father. To him also be thanks for the fulness of the gospel of Jesus Christ contained in the Book of Mormon — this record of a fallen people, this witness of the truth of the gospel and the holy scriptures — translated by Joseph through power given him from on high. Thanks for the testimony that God calls and inspires men and women for his mar- velous work in our day and age, as in generations of old. Thanks