---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Henry E. Home
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 7
number: 9
published: 1904-07
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Henry E. Home, "The Prophesied Exodus," *Improvement Era* 7, no. 9 (July 1904): 674–675.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0709unse
  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: improvementera0709unse
start_page: 674
end_page: 675
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1904-07)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0709unse
  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.
---

# The Prophesied Exodus

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Judge Farr then appeared and severly scolded the boys for
acting in such a manner.  He sent the boys home, telling them
that he would settle with them later.
     The boys left him, but they did not           go home.   They hid
themselves behind some willow trees, as soon as their father
turned his head.      After they had gone out of sight, Judge Farr
had a good laugh to himself, to think how comical the old sheep
looked, keeling over in the mud. He was a jolly fellow; he thought
he would like to try the same trick that the boys had worked, so
he got down in the same place and manner as his sons had done.
Another old buck saw him, and came swiftly, head down, at him,
but the judge was not spry enough to get out of the way in the
nick of time!  They both went sprawling into the mud together!
       The judge pulled himself out, and timidly made his way for
home, through the fields.    Then it was the boys' turn to laugh,
and they did, to themselves, of course.
       After that the sheep often came home covered with mud, but
the judge said nothing further about it.

                    THE PROPHESIED EXODUS.
                       (For the Improvement Era.)

      BY HENRY E. HORNE, OLD CASTLE, LEADVILLE, N. S. W., AUSTRALIA.

               When Zion's Seer was soon to bear
                 The death of shame his Master bore.
               He bade the suff'ring Saints prepare
                 To tread the wilderness once more;
               And seek a refuge, hallowed.
                 Upon the Rocky Mountains' breast;
               By living waters and by dead
                 Proclaimed the Canaan of the West.

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THE PROPHESIED EXODUS.                    675

He died, but with the Saints, bereft,
  His spirit sojourned in Nauvoo
To nerve the mighty leader left,
  His more than human work to do.
And so, while ever to the goal
  The dauntless Brigham led his band.
It was the star of Joseph's soul

  They followed to the Promised Land.

By Jordan's vale, in silent awe.
  They stood at last, their journey done.
And, filled with wondrous thoughts, they saw
  The Salt Lake near the setting sun.
It seemed that solemn beauty rayed

  From heaven, a foreshadowing
Of the divine event they prayed.
  The coming of their Lord and King.

Those pilgrims many years have passed.
  Beyond their persecutors' power;
The harvest of their labors vast
  The sons of Zion reap for dower.
The desert, that through them became
  A garden, and the city fair
They builded to their God, their fame
  Through all the ages shall declare.