--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Hyacinth collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 1 number: 9 published: 1898-07 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Hyacinth, "Expectation," *Improvement Era* 1, no. 9 (July 1898): 664.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera19unse 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: improvementera19unse start_page: 664 end_page: 664 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1898-07) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera19unse publication_year: 1898 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 1898, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Expectation 064 IMPRO VEMENT ERA . but we must beware of such theories as would do away with the reality of death, as a punishment inflicted by the hands of men. Joseph of Arimathaea, a member of the council, but a secret disciple of Jesus, came to Pilate to beg the body of Jesus that he might bury it. Nicodemus assisted in this work of love, and they anointed the body and laid it in Joseph's new tomb (Matt. XXVII: 50-61; Mark XV: 37-47; Luke XXIII: 46-56; John XIX: 30-42). EXPECTATION. The fairest blossoms 'long the way, Of life's uncertain day, Are those which bloom in bright array, Making the sad heart gay, With expectation. There is no joy in life so dear, Or to the heart more near, That fain conceals all inmost fear, Or gladdens life when drear, Than expectation. Clouds may seem full of untold woe, Yet prove no angry foe. And saddened hearts may lighter grow, That feel the after-glow, Of expectation. Oh, doubting heart, repine no more, Nor o'er thy lost hopes pore; The future's fraught with priceless store, For thee, as ne'er before, Through expectation. Hyacinth. Alpine, Utah, May 28, 1898.