--- 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: 20 number: 2 published: 1916-12 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: "Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, \"Beyond Today,\" *Improvement Era* 20, no. 2 (December 1916): 130." source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2002unse 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: improvementera2002unse start_page: 130 end_page: 130 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1916-12) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2002unse publication_year: 1916 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 1916, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Beyond Today — 130 IMPROVEMENT ERA districts where picking is better, thus the city is getting rid of this type of men. The casual observer of a month ago would be greatly impressed with the conditions in the city at present. Here and there drunken men staggered heavily laden with spirits. Especially when the city was filled with soldiers, drunkenness was very common, but now the men who are in uniform are not disgracing their uniforms by indulging in this habit. Toronto, Ont., Canada Beyond Today "If we could see beyond today As God can see; If all the clouds should roll away, The shadows flee, we would not fret, O'er present griefs Each sorrow we would soon forget, For many joys are waiting yet For you and me. "Ifwe could know beyond today, As God doth know, Why dearest treasures pass away And tears must flow, And why the darkness leads to light, Why dreary paths will soon grow bright! Some day life's wrongs will be made right; Faith tells us so. "If we could see, if we could know; Weoften say: But God in love a veil doth throw Across our way; We can not see what lies before, And so we cling to him the more; He leads us till this life is o'er; Trust and obey." Christian Work.