--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Hodapp, Minnie Iverson collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 23 number: 3 published: 1920-01 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Hodapp, Minnie Iverson, "Don’t You Remember?," *Improvement Era* 23, no. 3 (January 1920): 249.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2303unse 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: improvementera2303unse start_page: 249 end_page: 249 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1920-01) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2303unse publication_year: 1920 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 1920, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Don’t You Remember? PROPHECIES AND PROMISES OF THE LORD 251 the gift of interpretation of tongues, the gift of prophecy, the gift of knowledge, the gift of discernment of spirits, and the gift of testimony, or the gift of knowing "that my Redeemer lives." All of these faith-sources that increase intelligence are kept open by obedience, and their flow is in proportion to our appreciation of them, manifest in our reaching out for them, and responding to them. Theologically, exaltation and responsibility are synonymous; they not only require intelligence, but they enlarge the avenue of supply from without, and require increase of exercise from within. There is miracle as well as man-power in every step of success, in filling an office in the Church, where the spirit of one's calling rests upon him. Every ordination, appointment, or blessing, in the Church, creates a new possibility for the exercise of one's potentiality for the increase of intelligence. Elevated companionshipis a marvelous source in the increase of intelligence,and this companionship is of two kinds, human and divine. The sacrament covenant is illustrative of how the companionship of the Spirit of the Lord should be valued. The prophet Joseph clearly explains the effect of the companionship of the Holy Ghost, or First Comforter, in expanding the mind, and also points out what the companionship of the Lord Jesus Christ will do for the intelligence of man. See Gems, Compendium, pages 368, 369. In sec. 6:7 a promise is made concerning seeking wisdom. Sec. 6:11 contains a promise concerning making inquiry of the Lord. See also Gospel Doctrine, Joseph F. Smith, page 251. Sec. 6:32 contains a promise of the presence of the Lord on occasions of special united inquiry, by two or more of his disciples. Sec. 130:18 promises the carrying over of earth-life intelligence unto the resurrection; and paragraph 19 predicts the service superiority in the next world of the person who adds most to his intelligence here. The impossibility of salvation without information is divinely declared in Sec. 131:6. The Prophet Joseph is quoted in the Compendium, as saying, "A man is saved no faster than he gets knowledge; for if he does not get knowledge, he will be brought into captivity by some evil power in the other world, as evil spirits will have more knowledge, and consequently more power, than many men who are upon the earth." A most precious promise concerning the increase of our intelligence is made to the keepers of the "Word of Wisdom," Sec. 89:19. Questions and Problems 1 What did Jesus mean when he said, "Blessed are the meek?" Discuss the problem: The unteachable must make way for the 2. tpar liable ' 3. Quote from the Word of Wisdom the promise concerning the increase of inteUigence. . T has used the motto, "The Glory of God is In- 4. What magazine telligence" for over forty years? „A™t the at student 5. Prove from the temptation conflict in the wilderness habits of the Savior. , , f 6. Discuss this problem: Next to teachableness stands the act of one's intelligence. (Discuss the value teaching, as a means of increasing intelligence.) of teacher-training classes, as a means of teaching What is the penalty of neglecting to increase ones intelligence 7. in this life? And in the life to come?