--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Smith, Joseph F. collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 18 number: 4 published: 1915-02 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: "Joseph F. Smith, \"Editors' Table: Walk in the Light,\" *Improvement Era* 18, no. 4 (February 1915): 357." source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1804unse 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: improvementera1804unse start_page: 357 end_page: 357 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1915-02) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1804unse 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. --- # Editors' Table: Walk in the Light Editors' Table Walk in the Light "He that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin." Hence, when we know what is right, when we are in the midst of the light, it is a duty to walk in that light as the Savior did, that we may have fellowship with each other and fellowship with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, so that his blood may cleanse us from all sin. Prayer, as we have learned, is a duty imposed upon all. It is more than a duty; it is a pleasurable way to God, through his Son Jesus Christ. The hearts of all should be softened to pray to God. Prayer is a requirement of the great gospel of life and salvation. Spiritual salvation? Not only spiritual but temporal. There is joy and satisfaction to the con- trite heart and the humble soul who invokes the blessings of the living God. It is a joy which surpasses the comforts and joys of temporal things. It creates a something in one's soul that lifts up, makes better, comforts and softens the heart. It gives con- viction of the truth, and creates in men a desire to walk in the light and in the truth t and to shun the very appearance of sin. These are some of the spiritual blessings that come through prayer. Temporal blessings will not produce these feelings. Men, on the contrary, are sometimes so absorbed in the temporal blessings of life that they forget the Giver of these spiritual gifts. Let us bear in mind that the earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof. There is nothing in and of the earth which he has not created, nothing that he has not made and ordained, nothing that is not his by right divine. We are permitted to use the materials of the earth, which he has given us, freely for this purpose, but we are to be wise in the use of them and not covetous. We are not to grasp at more than will be for our good, thus hindering others from receiving their share of the benefits of God's provi- dence and love. The Lord gives us all that we need in this life, and confers these blessings upon us that we may share them with the good and with those who are not good, with the just and with the unjust. He allows his sun to shine upon the good and upon the evil, and sends his rains upon the just and the unjust. He rewards the labor of men according to their industry and persever- ance, and fidelity in their labor. The Lord bestows upon us great temporal blessings, comfortable homes, food, raiment, lands, cattle, sheep, horses, carriages, automobiles, railroads and steamships,