---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Elizabeth Furman
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: 'Elizabeth Furman, "Take Heart," *Improvement Era* 4, no. 1 (November 1900): 29.'
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: 29
end_page: 29
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.
---

# Take Heart

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COGITATION.                             29



peak rises above peak, and exaltation above exaltation, faith climbs
each once inaccessible summit, aided by that all-potent spiritual
force which the experienced one called "God working in us to will
 and to do of his good pleasure." "For we are his offspring," said the
seer, and by the alphabet of the primary principles of the Gospel,
man finally enters into the temple of God's elect, when the science
of eternal life is fully understood, where teachers "versed in won-
drous lore" will see to it that the advanced and advancing pupil
shall graduate "from glory to glory" as our Elder Brother-our
Father did, to whom be praise and dominion forever and ever.



                          TAKE HEART.

         "Take heart, O weary, burdened one, bowed down
                      Beneath thy cross;
         Remember that thy greatest gain may come
                      Through greatest loss.
         Thy life is nobler for a sacrifice,
                       And more divine.
         Acres of bloom are crushed to make a drop
                     Of perfume fine.

         "Because of storms that lash the ocean waves,
                       The waters there
         Keep purer than if the heavens o'erhead
                       Were always fair.
         The brightest banner of the skies float not
                       At noonday warm;
        The rainbow traileth after thunder-clouds,
                       And after storm .

         "Thy faults are needed, lest thy weakness be
                     Too soon forgot.
        God never gives his tenderest care to those
                       Who need it not;
        Nor canst thou rest till thou hast labored well ;
                     So, set for thee,
        Are Alpine heights to climb, ere thou canst dwell
                       In Italy."              Elizabeth Furman.