---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Ruth May Fox
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 7
number: 10
published: 1904-08
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Ruth May Fox, "Two Answers," *Improvement Era* 7, no. 10 (August 1904): 778.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0710unse
  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: improvementera0710unse
start_page: 778
end_page: 778
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1904-08)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0710unse
  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.
---

# Two Answers

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scripture    in questionthan any of our English translations^from
the Greek.     The point raised was settled by his own translation
of his own Bible.

                            TWO ANSWERS.
                        (For the Improvement Era.)

                 "Art thou a king, then?"        Thus Pilate spake,
                 And thus the answer came:
                 "Thou sayest that I am a king;
                 To this end was I born,
                 And for this cause came I into the world,
                 That I should bear witness of the truth."

                 Was he a king, then?        Behold the cross,
                 From thence the answer comes:
                 The earth quakes, great rocks are rent,
                 Darkness covers the earth,
                 The graves are opened, the dead arise!
                 Men stand aghast: "Truly, he was a king."
                 Is he a king, then?    Look down the years,
                 And let the ages tell;
                 His august name transcends them all;
                 Nations tremble at his breath.
                 Empires crumble, and kingdoms rise and fall,
                 Verily, verily, he is a king.
                    *        *         *         *       *

                 "Art thou a prophet?"  The mighty spake,
                 And thus the answer came:
                 "My people so sustain me.
                 But for this cause came I hither
                                           — eternal truth
                 That of the truth of heav'n
                 Revealed anew   — might bear witness."
                                   I

                 Was he a prophet?         Behold the king
                 Who shortly will appear,
                 His prophets he will vindicate,
                 And all the world shall know;
                 Their words, of him inspired, he will fulfill,
                 Their works and names extol, while he is king.
                                                          — Ruth May Fox.