The Improvement Era, Vol. 10

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Excerpt from The Improvement Era, Vol. 10: Organ of Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, April, 1907 Elder George Albert Smith, of the council of the Twelve Apostles, which again postponed the writing of the article until now, and even now it is undertaken in the midst of many other duties that urgently demand attention and frequently interrupt the work. Such is my apology to the editors and readers of the era for the delay of this article, and which I trust will be accepted as an evi dence, at least, that I have not been wilfully neglectful of my promise. Meantime, judging from the number and urgency of letters written on the subject to the editors of the era, I am happy to see there has been no abatement of interest in relation to the sub ject itself. If anything, one is tempted to believe the interest has been increased rather than diminished by the delay, and some, whose anxiety is particularly great, have expressed a desire to hear some thing upon the subject from the one who has a right to receive revelations for the Church. I think, he says, it would be right for us to receive this knowledge from him in place of either Elder Roberts, or Prof. Nelson, or anyone else. Undoubtedly, if the Lord has anything further just now to reveal to the Church upon that or any other subject, it will, of course, be revealed through the person referred to in the above quotation, the Presi dent of the Church. My purpose in mentioning the foregoing re mark at this point is that I may correct any idea that may be entertained by anyone, and in howsoever slight degree, that what Ihave written, or what I shall now write, on this or any other subject, is given out as the doctrine of the Church. I am in no way deluded with the idea that my writings are setting forth in\ any authoritative way the doctrines of the Church. What I have written, what I shall write, are my views of the doctrine of the Church, and it is of value as instruction in, and exposition of, the truth, only in so far as it is in harmony with what God has deemed wise to reveal on the various subjects treated. In this respect, what I have written or shall write is on exactly the same plane with what other elders have written or spoken respecting the gos pel, and associated subjects. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.