---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Kirby, George D.
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 16
number: 6
published: 1913-04
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Kirby, George D., "Interesting Stories," *Improvement Era* 16, no. 6 (April 1913): 546–548.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1606unse
  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: improvementera1606unse
start_page: 546
end_page: 548
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1913-04)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1606unse
  publication_year: 1913
  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 1913, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Interesting Stories

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Interesting Stories.

                         ARRANGED BY GEO. D. KIRBY

       Life.   —Would   it   be like God to create such beautiful, unselfish loves,
most   like the   love of heaven, of any type         we know, just for our three
score years and ten?         Would it be like him to let two souls grow together
here, so that the separating of the         day is pain, and then wrench them
apart for eternity?  What is meant by such expressions as "risen together, sitting together in heavenly places?" If they mean anything,

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INTERESTING STORIES                                       547

they  mean recognition, friendship, enjoyment. Our friends are not
dead, nor asleep; they go on living; they are near us always, and God
has     said,    "We     should    know    each    other    there."   — Elizabeth Stuart
Phelps.
       Life     alone   can give   out    his   true   bearings.       Advice,   education,
       sympathy, encouragement and all else can not give to one his
friends,
own bearings on the journey through the days.
    Patience must have her perfect work, and patience results alone
from hard facts. Disappointment must play its part. There may be
moments and days of black darkness. Things contrary may prevail
on every hand.
   Out of it all may come the greatest good; the pathway before one
may be cleared; the cloud by day and a pillar of fire my night may
become a reality.
   The greatest discovery is           to find one's bearings in life, and the
greatest      gift,   strength and resolution to follow those bearings to. the
end.

       Equality.      — Equality of rank there can never be; equality of wealth
there can never be; equality of intellect there can never be; equality
of influence there can never be. Such is the ordinance of God's providence.                                                         must al-
              In the will of man, as in the world of nature, there
ways be the mole hills as well as the mountains, and the thistles as
well as the forest trees. But equality of essential happiness, equality
of pure and true thoughts, there may be; and equality of common
destiny there is.

      Francis Bacon. —^Francis Bacon, eminent scholar and statesman,
was born. in London, England, Jan. 22, 1561. He was the youngest
son of Sir Nicholas Bacon, a lawyer and statesman, and was endowed
with much natural talent. He was a great master of the English language and many have ascribed to him the authorship of the plays of
Shakespeare.     It has been said of him that if men ever forgot his emi-

nence as a statesman and as an expounder of the law, he would still be
remembered by the curious faculty which enabled him to pack away
into a few sentences, a wealth of meaning.       While his life in public
office is clouded with dishonor and meanness, his scientific and literary
work is illuminated with his intellect, which towered far above that of
other men of his time. His essays are the best examples of this gift,
the most popular among them being "Essays," "History of the Reign
of Henry VII," "Advancement of Learning," etc.         His works relate
to all subjects from jurisprudence to morality and medicine, but his
poem which he entitled "The World," affords another striking example,
especially as he seldom wrote in verse.       He died on April 9, 1626,
deeply in debt, although for many years he had been a high-salaried
court    official.

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