--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Frost, Grace Ingles collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 9 number: 5 published: 1906-03 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Grace Ingles Frost, "Companions of Man: A Poem," *Improvement Era* 9, no. 5 (March 1906): 389.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0905unse 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: improvementera0905unse start_page: 389 end_page: 389 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1906-03) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0905unse publication_year: 1906 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 1906, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Companions of Man: A Poem MEMORIAL MONUMENT DEDICATION. 389 TESTIMONY OP JOSEPH SMITH. In the spring of the year of our Lord, 1820, the Father and the Son appeared to him in a glorious vision, called him by name and instructed him. Thereafter heavenly angels visited him and revealed the principles of the gospel, restored the authority of the Holy Priesthood, and the organization of the Church of Jesus Christ in its fulness and perfection. The engraved plates of the Book of Mormon were given him by the angel Moroni. These he translated by the gift and power of God. He organized the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on the sixth day of April, 1830, with six members. He devoted his life to the establishment of that Church, and sealed his testimony with his blood. In his ministry he was constantly supported by his brother Hyrum Smith, who suffered martyrdom with him. Over a million converts to this testimony h^ve been made throughout the world, and this monument has been erected in his honor, to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of his birth, by members of the Church which he organized. They love and revere him as a prophet of God, and call his name blessed for ever and ever. Amen. Around the capstone above the die : If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. — James 1: 5. Salt Lake City, Utah. COMPANIONS OF MAN. (For the Improvement Era). "I Can't" and "I Can" are companions of man. From his earliest youth. The one he shall choose means win or means lose In the battle of life. If "Can't" be his guide, he will always abide On the lowlands unseen; But if he choose "Can," the helper of man, To the hill-top he'll climb. As the city whose light shall shine forth so bright That it cannot be hid; Through wisdom and strength, he will triumph at length. In wresting from "Can't" his domain. Grace Ingles Frost. Salt Lake City, Utah.