---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - J. H. Ward
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 7
number: 7
published: 1904-05
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'J. H. Ward, "Sometime—Somewhere," *Improvement Era* 7, no. 7 (May 1904): 488.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0707unse
  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: improvementera0707unse
start_page: 488
end_page: 488
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1904-05)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0707unse
  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.
---

# Sometime—Somewhere

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inferences and conclusions; while Divine revelation         is   oft-times
swift and always sure.    Yet, concerning the multiplicity of natural
phenomena open to man's investigation, direct revelation does not
always specifically speak. The scientist, patient and painstaking,
is earnestly at work striving to solve some of the problems on

which but little light has been thrown.
      The instance in point   is   an admirable illustration of a great
truth uttered by inspiration, and of     its   subsequent acceptance on
the basis of scientific discovery and deduction.

                    SOMETIME, SOMEWHERE!
                      (For the Improvement Era).

         Unanswered yet? The prayer your lips have pleaded,
           In agony of heart these many years?
         Does faith begin to fail, is hope departing,
           And think you all in vain these falling tears?
         Say not the Father has not heard your prayer;
         You shall have your desire, sometime, somewhere!

         Unanswered yet?      Though, when you first presented
           This one petition at the Father's throne,
         It seemed you could not wait the time of asking,

           So urgent was your heart to make it known.
         Though years have passed since then, do not despair,
         The Lord will answer you sometime, somewhere!

         Unanswered yet? Faith cannot be unanswered.
           Her feet are firmly planted on the rock:
         Amidst the wildest storms, she stands undaunted,
           Nor quails before the loudest thunder-shock.
         She knows Omnipotence has heard her prayer,
         And cries, "It shall be done, sometime, somewhere!"
                                                       —J. H. Ward.