---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Green, Nels F.
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 7
number: 11
published: 1904-09
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Nels F. Green, "Inspire Our Hearts, Our Father Dear: A Poem," *Improvement Era* 7, no. 11 (September 1904): 828.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0711unse
  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: improvementera0711unse
start_page: 828
end_page: 828
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1904-09)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0711unse
  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.
---

# Inspire Our Hearts, Our Father Dear: A Poem

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828                      IMPROVEMENT ERA.

to organize tliemselves by a bond or everlasting covenant that cannot be broken; this, too, although they had received the gospel.          In
section 84, I learn that the Priesthood is an everlasting covenant,
between God and those who partake of it; also that the Book of
Mormon, and former commandments, are new covenants.       Your
father also instructed the leading brethren of the Church in regard
to their endowments, the Priesthood and the new and everlasting
covenant, etc., pertaining to the house of the Lord, and this on
more than one occasion within eighteen months before his death.            I

see, therefore,   no reason why the covenant spoken of in section
132 cannot be a new and everlasting covenant.
                                         Very respectfully,
                                                        John Powell.

        INSPIRE     OUR HEARTS, OUR FATHER, DEAR.

                  Inspire our hearts, our Father, dear!
                  Thy Spirit grant us ever near!
                  The light of inspiration thine,
                  Let thou on us in splendor shine.
                  We pledge to do what e'er is right;
                  To serve thee well by day and night;
                  And seek to live by ev'ry word
                  Proceeding from thy throne,       Lord.
                  We ask in Jesus' holy name.
                  Help us accomplish this our aim.
                                                —Mels       F.   Green.