---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Green, Niels F.
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 8
number: 11
published: 1905-09
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Niels F. Green, "Hymn," *Improvement Era* 8, no. 11 (September 1905): 816–817.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0811unse
  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: improvementera0811unse
start_page: 816
end_page: 817
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1905-09)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0811unse
  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.
---

# Hymn

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HYMN.
                  (For the Improvement Era.)



               Come let us all, in what we do,
               Perfection's standard hold in view!
               In all things humble be and meek,
               Eternal blessings ever seek!
               So act in life that constantly
               Through Christ we're blessed eternally
               With zeal perform God's holy will,
               Achievement's mission to fulfill!

               As children, to our Father cling,
               Who is the great Creator, King;
               Who rules, with Son and Holy Ghost,
               Surrounded by the heavenly host.
               Let us on earth his laws obey,
               In what we do, and act and say
               0, let us live a holy life,
               Indulging not in sin and strife!

               Let us not love ourselves alone,
               But fellow-men in ev'ry zone;
               But first and foremost, love the Lord,
               And live according to His word.
               Should we his wise commandments heed
               In life, we surely shall succeed;
               For as we strive to wisely live,
               So shall the Lord his blessings give.

                            •
                                CHORUS.
               Come, let us worship God above,
               And to all men extend our love;
               With earnestness in what we do,
               Perfection's standard hold in view!

                                                   Niels F. Green.
Ogden, Utah.

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A MOTHER'S LETTERS TO HER MISSIONARY
                                                SON.
                           EDITED BY SUSA YOUNG GATES.



                         VII.— WOMEN IN                 THE BRANCH.
        My Dear Son Daniel: — It is nearly three months since I wrote
your last letter.           I    have been quite ill for some time, as you know,
and I am only just beginning to feel like myself again. How many