---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 8
number: 2
published: 1904-12
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Give Me Strength: A Poem," *Improvement Era* 8, no. 2 (December 1904): 145.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0802unse
  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: improvementera0802unse
start_page: 145
end_page: 145
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1904-12)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0802unse
  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.
---

# Give Me Strength: A Poem

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TOPICS OF MOMENT.                           145

     Volume seven contains some unique maps of Jerusalem. There
are four maps representing Jerusalem at different periods, drawn
upon transparent paper. One represents Jerusalem in the time of
Nehemiah; another, 70, A. D.; a third, in the time of the Crusades; and the fourth, modern Jerusalem. These maps, when placed
over another, show the relative position of the important places
in Jerusalem during those four periods.              Another matter of particular interest   is   found     in    volume four where the chronology of
Jewish events, from the destruction of Jerusalem to the year 1902,
is given.

     This great work will undoubtly supercede Bible encyclopedias
heretofore published.          Every student of Jewish life and literature
will find in it all the characteristics    and important events of Judaism, ably treated.       It   is    certainly the   most valuable contribution
on Biblical subjects and Jewish            life   ever published. The volumes
are large and copiously illustrated.

                           GIVE ME STRENGTH.
                     Strenghten me,          Father dear,
                     By thy Spirit bring me near;
                     Comfort me, that holy peace
                     Never in my heart may cease.

                     Help me do what e'er is right!
                     Help me serve thee, day and night!
                     Help me live a holy life!
                     Help me hate all sinful strife!

                     Now I plead in Jesus' name
                     Thou would'st help me reach that aim;
                     I   am weak, but thou art strong!
                     Keep me from the ways of wrong.

                     Give me strength to do thy will,
                     Free my heart from ev'ry ill!
                     Give me strength to learn thy mind,
                     So my soul       its rest shall find.
                                                       Niels F. Green.
    Ogden, Utah.