--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Annie G. Lauritzen collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 3 number: 9 published: 1900-07 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Annie G. Lauritzen, "Utah, Star of the West," *Improvement Era* 3, no. 9 (July 1900): 678.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera39unse 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: improvementera39unse start_page: 678 end_page: 678 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1900-07) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera39unse 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. --- # Utah, Star of the West 678 IMPROVEMENT ERA. comrades, he died in the bloom of manhood, an innocent victim to the scoffing powers of Satan. Yet in the words of the martyred hero, "No unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing; persecution may rage; mobs may combine; armies may assemble; calumny may defame, but the truth of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent, till it has penetrated every continent; visited every clime; swept every country and sounded in every ear; till the purposes of God shall be accomplished and the great Jehovah shall say 'the work is done.' " UTAH, STAR OF THE WEST. Lo, a beautiful star in the west shineth bright, Its beams, so effulgent, now spreadeth in glory! To brighten and gladden the world with its light; And its destiny grand is the theme of my story. Chorus: 0 long may it shine, with a splendor divine, And shed forth its beams with a glory benign, That its people, through honor and virtue, may bring Salvation to those who will serve the Great King! As an emblem of peace to America's land, As a beacon of hope to this great spreading nation, As a power for the right lo, its sons nobly stand! And proclaim to the world the great light of salvation. Annie G. Lauritzen. Richfield, Utah.