---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Ella Higginson
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 5
number: 10
published: 1902-08
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Ella Higginson, "I Am So Sorry," *Improvement Era* 5, no. 10 (August 1902): 786.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0510unse
  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: improvementera0510unse
start_page: 786
end_page: 786
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1902-08)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0510unse
  publication_year: 1902
  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 1902, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# I Am So Sorry

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:                                                         —
786                     IMPROVEMENT ERA.

how he said to the Prophet, in the first conversation that he ever
had with him
      "I know there is a God, but how to approach him I do not

know."    The Prophet looked at him very earnestly for a moment
without saying anything, doubtless questioning or doubting his
sincerity; but afterwards the      Prophet talked freely with him, and
even held a conference at his house.            He    also   took Joseph to
Dowington, and while riding         in   a one-seated cutter with            the
Prophet and Lorenzo D. Barnes, carried on an interesting chat
with the former, which he pronounces the most friendly talk that
he ever had with man.
    On October 8, 1840, Edward Hunter was baptized by Elder
Orson Hyde, who was on  his way to Palestine, and thus became a

member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
                          (To be continued.)




                         'I   AM SO SORRY."

           A child came to her father yesterday,
             Wet-eyed and trembling- lipped, yet unafraid,
            And pardon for some wrong deed sweetly prayed.
          "I am so sorry," low I heard her say;
          "Father, I did not mean to disobey."
            Quickly the sorrowful father bent and smiled,
            And drew her to his breast. Then reconciled.
          The little girl went singing on her way.



          So dearest father, I   —so old   in years
            And yet a child, in that I blindly do
            Wrong deeds that hurt and grieve you every day
          Come unafraid, yet trembling and in tears          .   .   .


            "I am so sorry I have troubled you!
          Father, I did not mean to disobey."
                                                       Ella Higginson.