--- 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: 21 number: 1 published: 1917-11 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: "Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, \"The Effect of Tobacco on the Boy,\" *Improvement Era* 21, no. 1 (November 1917): 11." source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2101unse 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: improvementera2101unse start_page: 11 end_page: 11 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1917-11) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2101unse publication_year: 1917 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 1917, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # The Effect of Tobacco on the Boy PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNMENT IN THE CHURCH 11 the Lord would be an omission too serious to contemplate. It could not be. The only thing is for us to find out that it is so, and that it will be so, and that you and I and every one of us will have to answer for the deeds we do, and will be rewarded according to our works, whether they be good or evil. An Injunction to Unity Now, I bless you. I feel good in your presence. I hope you feel good in my presence; for if there is any man on earth who does not feel good in my presence, when I am trying to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ, I am sorry for him. I have been engaged in the service of the Lord since my childhood, in this very cause and I have learned line upon line, precept upon ; precept, here a little and there a little, until I feel that the Lord has given me to understand something, at least, with reference to the principles of government in the Church. If we were to resort to rebellion and unbelief and all kinds of iniquity, if those conditions existed in our wards, do you think it could be said of us that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the Church of Christ, and that the gospel we teach will purify men and bring them to a knowledge of the truth of the standard of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is the perfect standard? No; it could not be said; it would not be said; and it would be a dishonor to the Lord, a disgrace to the bishop and his counselors, a disgrace to that stake of Zion, to the high council and the presidency of that stake. It would be understood that men professing to be members of the Church were guilty of works of abomination and rebellion in the midst of the House of Israel. It would be a disgrace to the presiding authorities to permit it. Therefore, I say it is the duty of the presiding authorities of the Church to execute righteousness and justice, in mercy, in long-suffering and patience, and with a view to save and redeem men and not to destroy them or to ruin their hopes of salvation. God bless you, in the name of Jesus. Amen. The Effect of Tobacco on the Boy Dan McGugin, who has kept the eleven of the Vanderbilt university among southern schools for a good many years, close to the top of the line was recently asked what he thought of the effect of cigarette smoking on a boy. Here is a message he sent to the boys of America: 1. Cigarettes very distinctly retard or stunt the physical growth of a boy. 2. Cigarettes make boys stupid. In fifty years' experience in athletics, I have never known of a boy 3. who became a confirmed cigarette smoker when young who ever really amounted to anything verv much in his life later on.