---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Browning
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 6
number: 4
published: 1903-02
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Browning, "The Reward of Service," *Improvement Era* 6, no. 4 (February 1903): 265.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0604unse
  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: improvementera0604unse
start_page: 265
end_page: 265
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1903-02)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0604unse
  publication_year: 1903
  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 1903, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# The Reward of Service

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LIVING FAITH. 265
dom and power, defies the ravages of time, and will stand through
time and eternity, mighty, powerful and potent to save men from
their sins, and from poverty and sickness, and deliver them from
death, hell and the grave.
It makes plain the principles of eternal marriage between a
man and the woman he loves, puts him in possession of the science
of endless lives, and renders it possible for him to possess all
things worth having in time and in eternity.
Such, my dear friends and brethren of Spokane, are in part
the great principles of the go-pel of the Son of God, as revealed to
the ancient prophets and Saints, and as restored to the earth by
the ministration of holy angels, in this day, through Joseph,
Smith, the mighty prophet of this dispensation, and I testify to it,
in the name of J esus Christ.    Amen.
THE REWARD OF SERVICE.
The sweetest lives are those to duty wed,
Whose deeds, both great and small,
Are close-knit strands of an unbroken thread,
Where love ennobles all.
The world may sound no trumpets, ring no bells;
The Book of Life the shining record tells.
Thy love shall chant its own beatitudes
After its own life working.    A child's kiss
Set on thy singing lips shall make thee glad;
A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich;
A sick man helped by thee shall make thee strong;
Thou shalt be served thyself by every sense
Of service which thou renderest.—Elizabeth Barrett Browning.