---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Judd, Sidney A.
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 4
number: 9
published: 1901-07
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Sidney A. Judd, "What the Saints Stand For: A Poem," *Improvement Era* 4, no. 9 (July 1901): 682.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0409unse
  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: improvementera0409unse
start_page: 682
end_page: 682
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1901-07)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0409unse
  publication_year: 1901
  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 1901, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# What the Saints Stand For: A Poem

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WHAT THE SAINTS STAND FOR.


                 Forlthe Church of Jesus Christ;
                 For the truth that makes men free;
                 For the bond of unity
                    Which makes God's children one.

                 For the love which is in deeds:
                 For the life which this world needs;
                 For The Church whose triumph speeds
                    The prayer: "Thy will be done."

                 For the right against the wrong;
                 For the weak against the strong;
                 For the poor who've waited long
                    For the brighter age to be.

                 For the faith against tradition;
                  For the truth 'gainst superstition;
                  For the hope whose glad fruition
                    Our waiting eyes shall see.

                  For the city God is rearing;
                  For the new earth now appearing;
                  For the heav'ns above us clearing,
                    And the song of victory.
                                                  Sidney A. Judd.
       Jay, Leavenworth Co., Kansas.