--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Crocheron, George W. collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 8 number: 12 published: 1905-10 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'George W. Crocheron, "Of the Future," *Improvement Era* 8, no. 12 (October 1905): 927.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0812unse 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: improvementera0812unse start_page: 927 end_page: 927 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1905-10) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0812unse 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. --- # Of the Future RETRIBUTION— ORDER NO. 11. 927 boyonet, they had been driven from their own homes, and their country turned into a wilderness; they had been deaf to the cry for mercy, and her ears were closed to them in the hour of need. God had said the day of retribution should come, who can doubt that it had come? His words were now vindicated, and in that vindication another evidence was given to the world that the mis- sion of Joseph Smith was heaven-appointed. Kansas City, Mo. OF THE FUTURE. Hail to the day of millennial bliss, when all the faithful sons and daughters of God shall enjoy a thousand years of peace on earth! The heralding forth of the everlasting gospel, by the vast hosts of elders in Israel, gives tokens of Truth's onward march. The honest-in-heart are attracted to its magnetic influence; and, like the needle to the pole, an affinity exists between the spirit of the gospel and the heart of the hon- est believer. The harvest of the world has come to gather the elect, and thrice-blessed are those who are accounted worthy to be sampled for the Master's use, from the world's crude mass of sinful humanity. Ancient and modern prophets have predicted the most calamitous events in the world's history, the crises of wars, judgments by sea and land, earth- quakes, with other horrors added to afflict humanity. If sve are travel- ing in the direction marked out by the servants of God whose right it is to give saving counsel, our feet will not slip in duty's pathway. Thrice blessed are they who keep all the commandments of God, as pronounced by Jesus, and dictated by his living oracles. Though trials may come to test our faith, the Lord's protecting care will sustain the pure in heart, however dark the clouds of opposing powei'3 may be which com- bine to oppress. George W. Crocheron.