--- 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: 2 published: 1903-12 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Never Despair. A Poem", *Improvement Era* 7, no. 2 (December 1903): 86.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0702unse 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: improvementera0702unse start_page: 86 end_page: 86 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1903-12) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0702unse 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. --- # Never Despair. A Poem — 86 IMPROVEMENT ERA. are essential. The nomenclature of a science is often different in different lands, and is often changed as knowledge grows. It is hardly correct to say that he was in harmony with the law; the law as stated by the world of science was rather in har- mony with him. Be it observed that Joseph Smith enunciated the principle of the conservation of the energy, or intelligence as he called it, of the universe, in May, 1833, ten years before Dr. Joule published his famous papers on energy relations, and fifteen or twenty years before the doctrine was clearly understood and gener- ally accepted by the learned of the world. Let it also be remem- bered that the unlearned boy from the backwoods of New York state, taught with the conviction of absolute certainty that the doctrine was true, for God had revealed it to him. If God did not reveal it to him, where did he learn it, and whence came the courage to teach it as an eternal truth? (to be continued). NEVER DESPAIR. Behind the clouds the sky is blue, Tomorrow may be fair: Never despair! but, if you do, Work on in your despair. The needle to the pole points true For dauntless men who dare: Never despair! but, if you do, Work on in your despair. Though fate no roses flings, but rue, An'd a thorny crown you wear: Never despair! but, if you do, Work on in your despair. Selected.