---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 6
number: 1
published: 1902-11
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "A Mother’s Prayer," *Improvement Era* 6, no. 1 (November 1902): 37.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0601unse
  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: improvementera0601unse
start_page: 37
end_page: 37
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1902-11)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0601unse
  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.
---

# A Mother's Prayer
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HE HATH GIVEN US LIFE.                             37

closely resemble their parents."            This law has been established by
observation prolonged throughout the whole length of man's ex-
perience; and the fossil remains found imbedded in the strata of
the earth's crust, indicate that the              same great law prevailed
among ancient forms of life.             But these facts teach further that,
not   only are    all    living things endowed with power to reproduce
their kind, but new organisms are produced only through the ex-
ercise of the reproductive powers.               An organism is born into the
world;   we naturally infer that the germ of that new life was pro-
duced by parent life; and in no instance has this inference been
shown to be at fault.   It may, therefore, be affirmed as equally

true With the above-stated law, that an organism cannot come into
existence   by   its    own   force,   but originates in a seed, or germ, pro-
duced by a parent organism.
                         (Part Two in December Number.)

                           A MOTHER'S PRAYER.

                          FOR THE IMPROVEMENT ERA.
             Father in heaven!         in thy loving kindness,

               Stay with my boy, who is out in the world;
             0, leave him not in the midst of that blindness
                 And unbelief into which he is hurled       !

             May he be strong to resist all temptation;
               Brave in defense of the good and the pure;
             So may his present and final salvation,
                 Through thy sweet mercies, be ever secure.

             Thou gavest him to me, a part of my being;
               0, bring him back to me safe, undefiled!
             Worthy at last of thy precious face seeing,
                 Take us,      Father, myself and my child!