--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Ella Wheeler Wilcox collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 3 number: 10 published: 1900-08 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Ella Wheeler Wilcox, "God’s Kin," *Improvement Era* 3, no. 10 (August 1900): 746.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera310unse 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: improvementera310unse start_page: 746 end_page: 746 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1900-08) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera310unse 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. --- # God’s Kin 746 IMPROVEMENT ERA tion that hedge in this pathway, let us still persevere in the struggle upward. For when we have gained the goal for which we are striving; when we are resting within' the portals of that glorious mansion where we shall find peace and happiness, joy and delight, the contrast between the toilsome journey and the peaceful rest* will make us doubly appreciate the kindness of him who has prepared it for us. Let us, then, v/hen we meet trials and persecutions, in the course of our lives, endure them philosophically, remembering how the Saints endured trial when they were expelled from Missouri. GOD'S KIN. There is no summit you may not attain, No purpose which you may not yet achieve. If you will wait serenely and believe Each seeming loss is but a step to'rd gain. Between the mountain-tops lie vale and plain; Let nothing make you question doubt or grieve; Give only good, and good alone receive; And as you welcome joy, so welcome pain. That which you most desire awaits your word; Throw wide the door and bid it enter in. Speak, and the strong vibrations shall be stirred; Speak, and above earth's loud, unmeaning din Your silent declarations shall be heard. All things are possible to God's own kin. Ella Wheeler Wilcox.