--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Richard W. Young 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: 'Richard W. Young, "The Point of View," *Improvement Era* 3, no. 12 (October 1900): 918.' 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: 918 end_page: 918 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. --- # The Point of View 918 IMPROVEMENT ERA. doing was on China's side? Whatever the outcome of this commotion, it may be safely predicted that no war of revenge will be allowed. The voice of humanity will not permit it. Diplomacy will take the place of the roar of carnage. Reason will modify the demands of brute force, and the rights of man and our relations to China will be better understood than in the times past. Surely, this is a sign of the dawning of a better day: "It breaks, it comes, the misty shadows fly, A rosy radiance gleams along the sky. The mountain tops reflect it calm and clear, The vale is yet in shade, but day is near." THE POINT OF VIEW. BY MAJOR RICHARD W. YOUNG. "Your faith is lustreless with years," The sceptic urged — "forsooth; Its precepts vain, its hopes all fears. When scanned by light of truth. "Like yon cathedral's window old. Beneath the sun's stern gaze. Design it lacks, its colors cold, — Should this evoke your praise?" And he of faith with faith replied: "Come, shift the point of view. Beholding that with skill denied No longer false but true." i They knock; the willing portals yield, 0 vision of beauty rare! ' ] Transformed the window's glorious field, } Transfigured, Christ is there.