---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Isa Craig Knox
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 4
number: 1
published: 1900-11
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Isa Craig Knox, "Going Out and Coming In," *Improvement Era* 4, no. 1 (November 1900): 34.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0401unse
  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: improvementera0401unse
start_page: 34
end_page: 34
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1900-11)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0401unse
  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.
---

# Going Out and Coming In

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34        IMPROVEMENT ERA .


     An awful darkness resteth
       On the path they both begin,
     Who thus met upon the threshold,
       Going out and coming in.

     Going out unto the triumph,
       Coming in unto the fight-
     Coming in unto the darkness,
       Going out unto the light;
     Although the shadow deepened
       In the moment of eclipse,
     Whenhe passed through the dread portal,
       With the blessing on his lips.

     And to him who bravely conquers
       As he conquered in the strife,
     Life is but the way of dying-
       Death is but the gate of life :
     Yet, awful darkness resteth
       On the path we all begin
     Where we meet upon the threshold
       Going out and coming in.
                          Mrs. Isa Craig Knox.