--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - A. P. Welshman - Dante collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 1 number: 10 published: 1898-08 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'A. P. Welshman; Dante, "The Good Shepherd / The Vanity of Fame," *Improvement Era* 1, no. 10 (August 1898): 724.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera110unse 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: improvementera110unse start_page: 724 end_page: 724 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1898-08) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera110unse 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. --- # The Good Shepherd / The Vanity of Fame 724 IMPROVEMENT ERA. vicissitudes of life. And quoting from Psalm LXXVIII, we gain David's synopsis of his whole life: "He chose David also his servant, And took him from the sheepfolds; From following the ewes, he brought him to feed Jacob, his people, and Israel his inheritance. So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart, And girded them by the skillfulness of his hands." THE GOOD SHEPHERD. I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. But he that is an hireling and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth; and the wolf catcheth them and scattereth the sheep. (Joh7i X: ji, 12.J He giveth them, he giveth them, Pastors watchful, valiant, true; He feedeth them, he feedeth them. In pastures rich, and green and new; He leadeth them, he leadeth them. By living waters, crystal, pure; In endless love, in boundless love. His mercies will endure: He saveth them, he saveth them, In realms of love, and truth and light; He robeth them, he robeth them. In garments shining, clear, and white; And crowneth them, and crowneth them, Who've run the race, the vict'ry won. Hosannas sing, Hosannas sing. To the Father and the Son. A. P. Welshman, June, 1898. Grover, Uintah Co., Wyoming.