---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Curtis, T. E.
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 7
number: 6
published: 1904-04
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'T. E. Curtis, "A Stream of Revelation," *Improvement Era* 7, no. 6 (April 1904): 409.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0706unse
  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: improvementera0706unse
start_page: 409
end_page: 409
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1904-04)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0706unse
  publication_year: 1904
  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 1904, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# A Stream of Revelation

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A 
        STREAM 
        OF 
        REVELATION. 
        409
his 
        will 
        with 
        the 
        things 
        of 
        the 
        universe, 
        and 
        enables 
        man 
        to 
        move
on 
        to 
        eternal 
        salvation, 
        to 
        advance, 
        and 
        become 
        a 
        God; 
        every 
        law
is 
        of 
        necessity 
        a 
        result 
        of 
        the 
        operation 
        of 
        this 
        Spirit. 
        Here 
        again,
the 
        "Mormon" 
        prophet 
        anticipated 
        the 
        world 
        of 
        science; 
        and 
        his
conceptions 
        are 
        simpler 
        and 
        more 
        direct 
        than 
        those 
        invented 
        by 
        the
truth-
        seekers, 
        who 
        depended 
        upon 
        themselves 
        and 
        their 
        own 
        powers.
Marvelous 
        is 
        this 
        view 
        of 
        the 
        founder 
        of 
        "Mormonism." 
        Where
did 
        he 
        learn 
        in 
        his 
        short 
        life, 
        amidst 
        sufferings 
        and 
        persecution
such 
        as 
        few 
        men 
        have 
        known, 
        the 
        greatest 
        mysteries 
        of 
        the 
        uni-
verse !
(to 
        be 
        continued).
A 
        STREAM  
        OF 
        REVELATION.
BY  
        T. 
        E. 
        CURTIS, 
        SALT  
        LAKE  
        CITY.
Out 
        in 
        the 
        wild 
        and 
        rocky 
        west
White-tipped 
        with 
        many 
        a 
        season's 
        snows,
In 
        rare 
        and 
        rural 
        beauty 
        dressed,
A 
        stream 
        of 
        revelation 
        flows.
Along 
        its 
        shady, 
        winding 
        banks,
The 
        grass, 
        the 
        flowers, 
        the 
        woodlands 
        grow.
And 
        birds 
        are 
        sweet 
        in 
        tuneful 
        thanks
For 
        floods 
        that 
        never 
        cease 
        to 
        flow.
The 
        sunny 
        earth's 
        flower-garden 
        where,
Beneath 
        a 
        cloudless 
        sky 
        and 
        calm,
In 
        honest 
        praise 
        the 
        nations 
        share
In 
        many 
        a 
        sweet 
        and 
        holy 
        psalm.
Full 
        oft 
        along 
        its 
        sacred 
        brink,
Man, 
        weary 
        of 
        his 
        round 
        of 
        strife,
Seeks 
        refuge, 
        soul 
        athirst, 
        to 
        drink
The 
        waters 
        of 
        eternal 
        life.
There 
        when 
        the 
        sun 
        of 
        life 
        declines
Towards 
        its 
        setting 
        in 
        the 
        west,
The 
        quiet 
        star 
        of 
        hope 
        still 
        shines
To 
        light 
        the 
        pilgrim 
        to 
        his 
        rest.
To 
        human 
        kind 
        a 
        mystery!
A 
        miracle 
        upon 
        the 
        land!
A 
        world 
        of 
        light 
        and 
        liberty!
A 
        Nile 
        in 
        a 
        Sahara's 
        sand!