---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Stephens, Evan
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 2
number: 3
published: 1899-01
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Stephens, Evan, "See the Mighty Angel Flying," *Improvement Era* 2, no. 3 (January 1899): 240.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera23unse
  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: improvementera23unse
start_page: 240
end_page: 240
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1899-01)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera23unse
  publication_year: 1899
  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 1899, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# See the Mighty Angel Flying

<!-- page:240 -->

SEE THE MIGHTY ANGEL FLYING-
[Quartette-]*
Arranged by Evan Stephens.
r
1 r^ r>—, m • • ^^ »
-zNthe mighty an - gel fly
hear, the pro - cla - ma
m
ing, See, he
tion! Cease from
m -^Tit:^«-z:zi«^Ci=i|=--0
i
3 —I 1
—"I 1 I
N; _ Kn
\
' —I-- c_#-!
—
a > -J
speeds his way to earth,
van - i - ty and strife,
To fproclaim the blessed
Hasten to receive the
^^1^^=—
I

J 1-,
—
\^-^^^^^—, 5 R—a
—
'^¥-
Y—\ iE=t:
—
r-E_^=£LzFb .—^^z^—^—fcni^
ram ..^. i^ -
_- •*• • ^ | i.
S5^-
f'
5^3
gos
gos
mtf.
pel,,
pel,
And
And
[restore
- bey
the
the
ztt'r.
M an - cient
words of
ztz^izztz
faith,
life.
And restore,
And o-bey,
and restore the an - cient faith,
and o-bey the words of life.
-4 ^^,-^ ^^-^
•The words of the song are from the Latter-day Saints' Hymn Book, page 114, and
were written by R. B. Thompson. The music and arrangement is by Evan Stephens,
and was composed and presented by Brother Stephens to his friend Eldtr George D.
Pyper when the latter started on his mission through the Eastern cities of the United
States, in 1896.