---
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: 9
published: 1905-07
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "To the Work," *Improvement Era* 8, no. 9 (July 1905): 694.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0809unse
  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: improvementera0809unse
start_page: 694
end_page: 694
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1905-07)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0809unse
  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.
---

# To the Work

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everlasting dominion; and           without   compulsory means,            it   shall
flow unto them for ever and ever.
      Salt   Lake City, Utah.
                                TO THE WORK.
                To the work! to the work! we are servants of God;
                Let us follow the path that our Master has trod;
                With the balm of his counsel our strength to renew,
                Let us do with our might what our hands find to do.
                To the work! to the work! let the hungry be fed,
                To the fountain of life let the weary be led;
                In the cross and its banner our glory shall be,
                While we herald the tidings, "Salvation is free."
                To the work! to the work! there is labor for all,
                For the kingdom of darkness and error shall fall;
                And the name of Jehovah exalted shall be,
                In the loud swelling chorus, "Salvation   is free."
                To the work! to the work! in the strength of our Lord,
                And a robe and a crown shall our labor reward;
                When the home of the faithful our dwelling shall be,
                And we shout with the ransomed, "Salvation is free."
                                                                      Selected.