--- 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: 2 published: 1917-12 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: "Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, \"A Dip in the Great Salt Lake,\" *Improvement Era* 21, no. 2 (December 1917): 126." source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2102unse 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: improvementera2102unse start_page: 126 end_page: 126 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1917-12) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2102unse 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. --- # A Dip in the Great Salt Lake — 126 IMPROVEMENT ERA oped by Newton from the dim gropings of Kepler, the element- ary truths of Galileo, and the fascinating but wild speculations of Descartes. Newton's own attitude was expressed when as an old man full of honor and renown, venerated, and almost wor- shiped by his associates, he voiced the following words: "I know not what the world will think of my labors, but to myself it seems that I have been but as a child playing on the seashore; now finding some pebble rather more polished and now some shell rather more agreeably variegated than another, while the immense ocean of truth extended itself unexplored before me." He had sufficient vision to see that the great things of God — the numberless harmonious laws of the universe will ever re- main to man a subject of study and a source of wonderment. His modest expression is almost an echo of the words of Job: "Lo, these are parts of his ways, but how little a portion is heard of him; the thunder of his power, who can understand?" Logan, Utah A DIP IN THE GREAT SALT LAKE Mr. Olef Miller, Scout Master, and Tooele M. I. A. Scouts, sporting in the waters of the briny sea. No more pleasant nor invigorating exercise can be listed on the curriculum of innocent recreation.