--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Milton, Sarah E. collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 9 number: 6 published: 1906-04 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Sarah E. Milton, "Do Good and Joy Is Thine: A Poem," *Improvement Era* 9, no. 6 (April 1906): 455.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0906unse 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: improvementera0906unse start_page: 455 end_page: 455 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1906-04) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0906unse 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. --- # Do Good and Joy Is Thine: A Poem LIFE OF ST. PAUL FOR THE YOUNG. 455 them with awe. The next day they sailed to Neapolis, the harbor of Philippi, ten miles distant. The apostle's ship carried Christianity from Asia to Europe. In time other ships bore it to America; and still other from both countries to other lands, even back to Asia where it started. The Macedonian cry still comes from all heathen lands to all Christians everywhere, as truly, though not in the same way, as it came to Paul in Troas. [to be continued.] DO GOOD, AND JOY IS THINE. (For the Improvement Era.) If you are seeking to be great, To carry deeds of worth and weight, Learn first this lesson most divine, Do good, and joy is thine. If you would cheer the aching heart, To the oppressed a balm impart, Learn this one fact in early prime, Do good, and joy is thine. If you would lift the weight of woe From him whose steps with age are slow, To this grand truth your acts incline, Do good, and joy is thine. Or would you wipe the dimming tear, From eyes that look for love and cheer, Let these few words your thoughts entwine : Do'good, and joy is thine. No grander lesson e'er was taught, No heart could claim a nobler thought, Than this — no motto more sublime — Do good, and joy is thine. Sarah E. Mitton. Logan, Utah.