---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Nels F. Green
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 7
number: 8
published: 1904-06
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Nels F. Green, "An Invitation to Investigate," *Improvement Era* 7, no. 8 (June 1904): 598.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0708unse
  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: improvementera0708unse
start_page: 598
end_page: 598
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1904-06)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0708unse
  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.
---

# An Invitation to Investigate

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Behold how Nature puts to shame
                    Your unbelief, and fills
                  Her vales with voices that proclaim,
                     " 'Tis Zion in the   hills."

                  Here carved Creation in the past.
                     To show truth-seeking eyes
                  Where, in the mountain tops, at last,     •

                     God's temples should arise;
                  And now, 'neath rugged range and peak,
                     The Sons of Zion build.
                  And desert places, blooming, speak
                     Of prophecy fulfilled.

                  We know that Jesus shall appear
                     Above our Jordan's tide,
                  And our Gennesaret shall hear.
                     His "Peace, be still," world-wide.
                  While lovelier far than lake and sky,
                     'Neath morning's dawning ray,
                  The Lord of life shall vivify
                     His "Sons of God" for aye.

                  0, blessed symbols, read aright.
                    Of truth once seven-fold sealed,
                  But in this latter-day of light.
                     Through chosen seers revealed;
                  We read your sacred runes, and know,
                     Our portion and reward,
                  No powers of darkness can o'erthrow,
                     For Zion waits her Lord.
                                                    —Henry E. Horne.
Old Castle, Leadville, New South
        Wales, Australia,