---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Anderson, Bertha E.
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 8
number: 1
published: 1904-11
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Bertha E. Anderson, "The Way Infinite: A Poem," *Improvement Era* 8, no. 1 (November 1904): 6.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0801unse
  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: improvementera0801unse
start_page: 6
end_page: 6
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1904-11)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0801unse
  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 Way Infinite: A Poem

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6                             IMPRO VEMENT ERA

not exhaustive in their treatment of each topic, are also in harmony with the method of study here advocated.
           The book of Doctrine and Covenants, if studied systematically,
according to the plan suggested in this article, or any other well
considered plan, would be found a most pleasing and instructive
study for       many Elders' and       Seventies' quorums, that are seeking
for means to arouse and maintain the interest of their members.
It would also furnish          an unexpected strength to the missionaries
n the field, or at home.           Every young man of Zion should take a
pride in knowing with some degree of accuracy the revelations of
God to the Latter-day Church; and he has the right to feel the
exalted pleasure which comes to him who, as he reads the book of
the revelations, hears for a moment the voice of t4ie Lord speaking
to the Prophet.
      Logan, Utah.

                              THE WAY INFINITE.

                              (For the Improvement Era.)

                   Infinitude, thine is no mystery,
                   When souls merged into thee by ways of grace,
                   Outspeed the thraldom of ignoble birth,
                   And heritage, and smirching ban of race;

                   Pre-natal test, innate nobility.
                   And feal servitude of steadfast ones
                   He hath remembered it who tests again,
                   Nor godliness denies unto His sons.

                   He hath remembered it who moulds the orbs.
                   And kindles them with impress of the years;
                   And man's eternal faith is mirrored there,
                  Nor reign of priests disrupted from the spheres.
                  Decree and fate   —a   trite phase they of earth,
                  Which souls may span— and iron destiny;
                  Aye, cleave their fetters and soar unto Him
                  Monarchs of peace and gods 'mid worlds to be.
                                                      Bertha E. Anderson.
    Salt   Lake City, Utah.