--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - L. L. Greene Richards collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 3 number: 12 published: 1900-10 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'L. L. Greene Richards, "Light, Truth and Love," *Improvement Era* 3, no. 12 (October 1900): 932.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera312unse 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: improvementera312unse start_page: 932 end_page: 932 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1900-10) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera312unse 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. --- # Light, Truth and Love 932 IMPROVEMENl ERA. do all she can to maintian the integrity and identity of China. England will second this movement, and now that Russia has led, there can seemingly be but one. outcome, and that is the withdrawal of the allied forces from the Chinese capital. England may feel chagrined at the march Russia has stolen, but in the end England will yield because she opposes the dismemberment of the empire and prefers the natural growth of her great commercial interests in that country. Germany is nonplussed. France will go as far as she reasonably can to satisfy her ally, Russia, so that it looks as if Russia had set the march for the other countries of Europe and for the United States. LIGHT, TRUTH AND LOVE. Let all my soul be filled with holy Light, That I may never falter by the way. Should darkness overshadow me, and night Shut from my natural eyes each guiding ray. Let Truth abide in me, a living source, That never can be quenched by floods of wrath; That fire cannot consume me, and no force Have power to turn my feet from duty's path. Let Charity, the pure, sweet Love of Christ, Envelop me, that I may keep aloof From all things which have hitherto enticed My being into ways that need reproof. Thus standing, where have stood the true and brave. Thus walking where the faithful ones have trod, I shall o'ercome the world, the flesh, the grave, And, mounting upward, dwell with Christ and God. L. L. Greene Richards.