---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Anderson, Nephi
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 3
number: 2
published: 1899-12
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Anderson, Nephi, "Consolation, a Poem," *Improvement Era* 3, no. 2 (December 1899): 109.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera32unse
  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: improvementera32unse
start_page: 109
end_page: 109
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1899-12)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera32unse
  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.
---

# Consolation, a Poem

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CONSOLATION.

                          BY NEPHI ANDERSON.

                  In this my journey through infinitude
                  I'm not the creature of mere accident;
                  Nor need I blindly grope through time and space
                  To some hap-hazard end, unthinkable;
                  For One has gone before, search'd out a way
                  To immortality and perfectness;
                  And I may follow in that upward path;
                  For He who is ahead looks back on me
                  And kindly bids me follow in His tread.
                  —This is my sweet, consolatory thought.

                  My supreme hope to which I fondly cling.