--- 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: 6 published: 1900-04 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Brilliants: A Poem," *Improvement Era* 3, no. 6 (April 1900): 443.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera36unse 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: improvementera36unse start_page: 443 end_page: 443 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1900-04) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera36unse 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. --- # Brilliants: A Poem —— SILENT FORCES. 443 cooperative theories, questions of education,patriotism, finance, civilgovernment and state founding, have all been touched and partially glorified by "Mormon" thought and consideration. If this is egotism, if it is deemed rash, improbable, or untrue, let the observing mind follow the penetrating power of ideas, the irresistible force of thought. "The Kingdom of God cometh not with observation," there is no flourish of trumpets, no Sinaic thunders, no laudation of men, no patronage of wealth, no governmental aid, none of the lauded appliances of intellectual culture or approbation of learned societies. Its only auxiliaries are simple men who, under an unmistakable inspiration, are voicing the decrees of destiny, the purposes of the living God. The preaching of the Gospel by authority is the voice of the Father, it is really the philosophy of the Heavens, the science of eternal life; but it embraces all truth, includes all topics, touches all interests, and circumscribes both heaven and earth, time and eternity; and it marvelously demonstrates the power of a silent force which is as tangible and powerful as the forces which control the starry heavens, and glorify each season on the bosom of our present mother earth. BRILLIANTS. "What God appoints, enjoy What he withholds, forbear Each care a hidden blessing brings. Each blessing brings a care." "I cannot read His future plans, But this I know: I have the smiling of his face And all the refuge of his grace While here below. "Enough; this covers all my wants, And so I rest; For what I cannot, he can see. And in his care I safe shall be, * Forever blest."