--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Cannon, George Q. 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: 'George Q. Cannon, "Watch the Captain," *Improvement Era* 8, no. 7 (May 1905): 545.' 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: 545 end_page: 545 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. --- # Watch the Captain EDITOR'S TABLE. 545 ous factor in the accomplishment of the glorious purposes of God which are to come to full fruition in the latter days. "WATCH THE CAPTAIN." "I oell you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, there is no power upon the earth or in hell that can disturb the peace and quietude, the prosperity and success of this people, or interrupt the progress of this great and glorious work of our God. I dare prophesy that, in the name of Jesus Christ, for I know that it will be justified, every word of it. God ha3 stretched forth his hand to accomplish a work, and that work will roll forth. Men may die, men may be slain, men may fall on the right hand and on the left, but the column will still press forward, it will still march onward gathering in from ever land and from every nation the honest, the meek, the lowly, and those who love righteousness and who desire to serve our God. can truthfully say I do not believe that there I ever was a time when threats were made against us, when greater peace and less fear rested down upon the servants of God than at the present time. I look at our President— I always did watch the captain of the ship with peculiar interest, when on the ocean surrounded by icebergs, or when in the midst of great storms, as I have been a few times. I watched his eye and his demeanor, and I fancied, and I think very correctly, that I could form a good I have been in storms when idea of our peril by watching him. everybody on board, excepting the elders, expected to go down. I Prophet Joseph, the did the same thing when a boy, watching the I did the same with fewopportunities that I had of doing so. danger President Young, when he lived. In times of threatening noticed the spirit that moved upon him, as well and of anxiety, I I do the same today with Presias its operations upon myself. dent Taylor. I have watched his bearing and have listened to his words; and I have taken notice of his spirit, as I have also of the I have witnessed but one spirit, brethren associated with him. and felt but one feeling, and have had but one thought impressed upon me by their demeanor; and this spirit, and the corresponds exactly with my own. I feel impression it makes,