---
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: 8
number: 7
published: 1905-05
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Ruth May Fox, "Look Up," *Improvement Era* 8, no. 7 (May 1905): 500.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0807unse
  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: improvementera0807unse
start_page: 500
end_page: 500
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1905-05)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0807unse
  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.
---

# Look Up

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lieve that there is eternal war set between               our intellectual faculties and our spiritual intuitions.            I,   for one,admit no such radical
vice in the constitution of things."
        It will probably be found, as maintained by Kant, that the hope
of eternal life must not look to reason for the source of its life;
but is it thinkable that man must hold such a hope in the face of
reason?      I   prefer to believe that these contradictions result from
the attempt to        wed truth and error,          —the revelations of Jesus
Christ with the speculations of heathen philosophy; that the early
Christian thinkers, whose mission it was to develop out of Christ's
doctrines a philosophy consistent with Christian hopes and aspiration,   were so steeped in the vagaries of metaphysics as to be blind
to those fundamental principles of human existence which would
have united into one eternal perspective all the truths discoverable
by the race, whether by head or by heart; which thesis I shall try
to maintain in part II of this paper.
  Worcester, Mass.
                                     LOOK UP.
                          {For the Improvement Era.)
                      When thy heart is sad and weary,
                           Look up!
                      When the world is cold and dreary,
                           Look up!
                      Beckoning hope, in gentle beauty,
                      Doth abjure thee, "Do thy duty."
                          Never lagging,
                          Never flagging,
                      Though the powers of hell assail thee,
                      Though thy prayers do naught avail thee,
                           Still   look up!
                      Battle!      God will not forsake thee   !
                      A stronger vessel he would make thee;
                      His blessings surely will o'ertake thee.
                           Look thou up!
                                                             Ruth May Fox.
  Salt Lake City, Utah.