---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Palmer, William A.
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 2
number: 9
published: 1899-07
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Palmer, William A., "A Sister’s Sentiment," *Improvement Era* 2, no. 9 (July 1899): 692.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera29unse
  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: improvementera29unse
start_page: 692
end_page: 692
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1899-07)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera29unse
  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.
---

# A Sister’s Sentiment

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692                      IMPROVEMENT ERA.

doctrine," etc.    I did not look for a manifestation in this way, but

I   am trying to follow the injunction, and I find that the truth is
growing brighter every day.

                       A SISTER'S SENTIMENT.

                  BY WILLIAM R. PALMER, MISSIONARY.

      A sentiment which my sister wrote in my album has had a
great influence on my young life:       "Keep your thoughts pure, and
your desires aright; you will then do only that which is good."
When temptation's traps are set before me, causing my thoughts
to stray from the pure and the right, these words often         come to
my mind with such force as to compel consideration of the course
I   contemplate.

                  MINISTERING TO THE AFFLICTED.

                    Take thou no glory to thyself;
                    To God alone give all the honor
                    For whate'er of power he doth on thee
                    Bestow to heal the sick.
                    Let thy hands be clean; each heart
                    As pure as falling snow from
                    Heaven's hight, or virgin gold
                    Wherein no dross abides.
                    Extend thy faith to him from whom
                    Comes power to bless and heal.
                    Then shall his heavenly benison
                    Distil upon thy soul, and each fibre
                    Of thy being thrill with strength divine.
Salt Lake City.                                   George W. Crocheron.