---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Henry Nicol Adamson
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 18
number: 3
published: 1915-01
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Henry Nicol Adamson, "The New Year," *Improvement Era* 18, no. 3 (January 1915): 230.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1803unse
  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: improvementera1803unse
start_page: 230
end_page: 230
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1915-01)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1803unse
  publication_year: 1915
  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 1915, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# The New Year

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230                            IMPROVEMENT ERA
only says more, and before he is aware of it, he has cultivated a
habit, besides the evil example he sets before his children. One of
the cardinals of the Catholic church remarked some time ago,
''You let us teach a child the Faith until he is ten years of age, and
come what may, he will never depart from it."
     I have watched early teaching and early impressions upon
children, while their minds were like a sheet of clean paper, easily
impressionable. Don't forget the importance of this, parents, and
teachers, because it is our duty to impress these important facts
upon their minds now, that as an article of daily use, alcoholic
liquors produce the most deplorable consequences as to their evil
                                                              ;

effects on health and the moral degredation caused by their
use. 1 cannot find words of condemnation strong enough.
LOGAN,   UTAH

                                 The New Year

                 I    sat   by my window, and waited,   last night,
                      With many a     silent tear,
                 To bid good-bye to the old, old pain,
                   And welcome, "A Happy New Year."

                 And I wondered if, in the coming year,
                   The pain would live again;
                 Or if the dead past buried its dead
                   With the dying Year's refrain.

Hark!    'tis   the   merry chiming bells, ringing "a bright New Year,"
 And happy voices shout aloud its echoes far and near.
And so will I, "A Bright New Year," and let the dead be past;
 Another year brings in the morn, with joys that yet .may last.

Let sorrow pass, and high thought climb to better aims in life,
  And from the ashes of the past rise nobler from the strife.
Then welcome, "Bright New Year;" to all, your season's gifts be love;
  And teach us all the way to reach a happy home above.
                                               Henry Nicol Adam son