---
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: 8
published: 1905-06
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Song of Cheer," *Improvement Era* 8, no. 8 (June 1905): 602.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0808unse
  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: improvementera0808unse
start_page: 602
end_page: 602
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1905-06)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0808unse
  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.
---

# Song of Cheer

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—
S02                         IMPROVEMENT ERA.
the elders of Israel ever since, and it will doubtless continue to
be so preached until we all come to a unity of the faith.
    This plan was also laughed at when it was first made known;
now we find people on every hand, who believe the gospel should
be preached free.
       The Church of God and Hardshell Baptists are two amongst
the denominations that preach, this way, only accepting donations,
and not receiving a regular salary.
     It has long been supposed by a majority that the Garden of
Eden was located some place on the Eastern continent, but in a
revelation to Joseph Smith, May 19, 1838, it was made known that
Spring Hill, in Daviess county, Missouri, was the place where Adam
dwelt.
       Not long since, a professor of one of the Kansas institutions of
learning advocated the theory that "Eden" was located in Kansas,
and that Adam and Eve were the original old settlers.
       P. P. Campbell, Congressman from Kansas, recently received
a letter from a constituent living in Oswego, in which he claimed
that the ark was launched at some point in the Mississippi valley.
He has made a study of the subject from the Bible, and decided
from that and other facts that the statement is true. He wishes
Mr. Campbell to ask Congress for an appropriation forarcheologiical   discoveries, in    the state of Mississippi, to determine       if   the
mound builders were not antediluvians.
    And so we see that the gospel truths,   as revealed to the
Prophet Joseph Smith, are slowly revolutionizing the thought of
the world.                                                             ,
    Chattanooga, Tennessee.
                            SONG OF CHEER.
                    Find in your heart a cheering song
                    And sing it as you move along.
                    There's nothing half so hopeful
                         As a little song of cheer,
                    When the burden groweth heavy
                         And the way becometh drear.       Selected.