A Prayer

302 IMPROVEMENT ERA. life is commendable and praiseworthy, but how expansive will be our sphere of doing more good when we enter upon those religious activities consequent upon preaching the gospel of the Son of God to the spirits in prison, in the other world! Human conception fails to conceive of those sublime experiences of missionary life in that broad field of religious labor of love. The benign influence of the spirit of love will fill each breast, and joy will succeed joy as the honest-in-heart accept from the servants of God the gospel of emancipation and eternal life. Blessed are they of good will, who enjoy the exalted privilege of becoming saviors upon Mount Zion in these last days, and to minister in a holy temple for the salvation and exaltation of their kindred dead. How grand is the performance of this noble mis- sion! What mighty results follow the work engaged in! Our finite minds cannot grasp in its fulness the intensity of joy ex- perienced by those administered for, and it seems to the writer that eternity alone can reveal it! George W. Crocheron. A PRAYER. (^FoT the Improvement Era.) Look down on me, dear Savior, who rules in realms above, And fill me with humility, with patience and with love; Consider all my sutferings, oh thou who suffered most, Who died for our salvation, that we might not be lost. Raise Ihou me up from suffering, help me to do thy will, Help me to serve thee ever, my mission to fulfil. Oh, be thou ever near me, my constant Friend and Guide; Help me to do thy bidding, and in thy ways abide. I ask thee not for riches to canker and to gall; I ask for strength to serve thee; for wisdom more than all. 1 ask not strength to follow the paths of worldly pride, But Virtue, Truth and Honor, — let these in me abide. Despising worldly pleasure with boasted pomp and show, I ask for heavenly treasures, to do, to be, to know. To do my best to serve thee, to be a soldier true; To know thy will concerning the course I should pursue. Oh, let thy Holy Spirit be with me every hour. To teach me all my duty; keep me from Satan's power. Annie G. Lauritzen.