---
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: 7
number: 1
published: 1903-11
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "The Man Who Feels. A Poem", *Improvement Era* 7, no. 1 (November 1903): 41.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0701unse
  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: improvementera0701unse
start_page: 41
end_page: 41
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1903-11)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0701unse
  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 Man Who Feels. A Poem

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"BLESSED ARE THE MERCIFUL:*                              41


be exhibited in the day of judgment; and when the books are
opened, there will be an account rendered; those who have exacted
the pound of flesh   —who have shown no mercy—              will have nothing

standing to their credit,         and "he   shall   have judgment without
mercy." Those who pleaded to Shylock shall be exalted high above
the heavens, for "As the heaven is high above the earth, so great
is   God's mercy."
       I bid you remember       that as we all pray for mercy, that same
prayer shall teach us to show mercy.

             Let not mercy and truth forsake thee;
             Bind them about thy neck.
             Write them upon the tablet of thine heart;
             So shalt thou find favor and good understanding
             In the sight of God and man.




                        THE MAN WHO FEELS.


                 The man who feels is happier far,
                   I say it again and again,

                 Than ever can be, or ever are,
                   The pitiless sons of men;
                  For if he sighs for his own gray woes,
                     He sighs for another's too;
                  If the plant of pain in his bosom grows,

                     It is covered by sympathy's dew.

                  And after it all, when all is said.
                  Still pity    and love forever are wed;
                  That the heart unfeeling is chill and dead
                     Is true,   and forever is true.    Success.