--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Walker, C. L. collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 3 number: 8 published: 1900-06 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'C. L. Walker, "Send a Prayer to Heaven: A Poem," *Improvement Era* 3, no. 8 (June 1900): 594.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera38unse 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: improvementera38unse start_page: 594 end_page: 594 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1900-06) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera38unse 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. --- # Send a Prayer to Heaven: A Poem — — 594 IMPROVEMENT ERA. and authority of that art that invariably a lodge with its signs and tokens followed. In the erection of Stonehenge and similar circles, if the descendants of Japheth had not forgotten art and science, they would not have permitted their signs and tokens of Freemasonry to become buried in oblivion. The probability is that the one would be as traditionally forceful to them as the other. SEND A PRAYER TO HEAVEN. Send a fervent prayer to heaven, When thy soul is wrought with grief; Gilead's balm shall be thy healing, Sanctified to thy relief. Send a truthful prayer to heaven, When the tempter bids thee not; Thy pleading voice is not unheeded, Nor thy prayer of faith forgot. Send a holy prayer to heaven, When beset with death's sad gloom; It shall 'suage thy tears and sorrows, Whispering peace beyond the tomb. Send a righteous prayer to heaven, When sore trials vex thy soul; Faint not; 'tis but God's refining. Look up! See the blessed goal. Send a grateful prayer to heaven, For thy mission here on earth; For thy parentage celestial, And thy blessed time of birth. Send a prayer with holy fervor For the Priesthood's keys and powers, Holy seals of resurrection Zion's temples, walls and towers. C. L. Walker.