--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Wagner, A. C. collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 8 number: 3 published: 1905-01 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'A. C. Wagner, "Hope, the Immortal Daughter of God," *Improvement Era* 8, no. 3 (January 1905): 166–167.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0803unse 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: improvementera0803unse start_page: 166 end_page: 167 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1905-01) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0803unse publication_year: 1905 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 1905, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Hope, the Immortal Daughter of God HOPE, THE IMMORTAL DAUGHTER OF GOD. Suso, the great monk and mystic, one of the simplest and best men that ever lived, had a touching habit. Every time that he met a woman, the oldest and the poorest, he stepped respectfully aside, though to do that he must set his bare feet among the thorns or in the muddy gutter. "I do that," he said, "to render homage to our holy lady, the Virgin Ma^!" Let us render to hope a like reverence. If we meet it under the form of a spear of wheat which pierces the furrow, the bird which broods and feeds her nestlings, of a poor wounded animal which gathers itself together, rises and continues its way, of a peasant who labors and sows a field ravaged by inundation and hail, of a nation which slowly repairs its losses and heals its wounds, under no matter what humble and suffering exterior, salute it. When we encounter it in the legends, the untutored songs, in the simple beliefs, salute it again. For it is the same always, the immortal, the indestructible daughter of God!—Charles Wagner's The Simple Life. THE