--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 3 number: 3 published: 1900-01 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Loving Words: A Poem," *Improvement Era* 3, no. 3 (January 1900): 185.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera33unse 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: improvementera33unse start_page: 185 end_page: 185 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1900-01) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera33unse publication_year: 1900 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 1900, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Loving Words: A Poem RELIGION ON SAMOA. 185 Islands among England, Just what effect the division of the religious phase Germany and the United States will have upon the of the Samoan question, we cannot determine now, but no doubt it will be interesting to see these various forms of modern govern- so closely in conments exercised so close together, and coming tact with each other every day. It would be cruel to bring the Samoans to our cold climate where they would have to work eight or ten hours a day, instead for a living, as they do on Samoa. of a few hours now and then, crush their spirits, and create dissatisOur ceaseless work would more natural gathering place for them faction. Some day, a or South America, when our missionmight be found in Central where the climate will be similar to aries go into those countries their island home, and where they can be reunited with their Ephraim will teach them American brethren, the Lamanites, and until they once more become a white and a delightsome people. LOVING WORDS. "Loving words will cost but little, Journeying up the hill of life; But they make the weak and weary Stronger, braver for the strife. Do you count them only trifles? What to earth are sun and rain? Never was a kind word wasted, Never was one said in vain. "When the cares of life are many, And its burdens heavy grow, Think on weak ones close beside you,- If you love them, tell them so. What you count of little value Has an almost magic power, And, beneath their cheering sunshine, Hearts will blossom like a flower." Selected.