--- 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: 11 published: 1906-09 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Grace Ingles Frost, "Beyond the City: A Poem," *Improvement Era* 9, no. 11 (September 1906): 881.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0911unse 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: improvementera0911unse start_page: 881 end_page: 881 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1906-09) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0911unse 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. --- # Beyond the City: A Poem LIFE OF ST. PAUL FOR THE YOUNG. 881 At last they were cheered by the sight of land, though they knew not its name. Discovering a creek, they purposed to enter it and land on the sandy beach. The foresail was set, the anchors taken up, the rudder bands loosened, and the vessel moved. But the forepart was stuck fast in a sand bank concealed by the waves. Opposing currents struck the hinder part, which was driven to pieces by the violence of the billows. In a few minutes, Paul's word had come true that there should be the loss of the ship. The soldiers saw that they could reach the land. So could the prisoners. If they escaped the soldiers would be severely punished by Roman authority. So they proposed to kill all the prisoners, thus dyeing the waters dashing over the breaking ship with blood of those who had helped to save them from drowning. ' 'But the centurion, willing to save Paul, kept them from their purpose." Once more could be said to Paul, "Lo, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee." The centurion gave orders that all the soldiers who could, should plunge into the water and swim to the shore. Not only they, but all escaped safe to land. From Paul's fourth shipwreck he was saved. (TO BE CONTINUED.) BEYOND THE CITY. Beyond the city's busy hum. Beyond the city and its toil, Beyond its want, its sin and care, It makes my heart forget its pain, I linger at the set of sun, To watch the farmer till the soil, And feel that God is nearer there. Or gather in the ripened grain. Beyond the city where the hay, Beyond the city! That is where, Newmown, with fragrance fills the I fain would rest when life is done, breeze Within the shadow of the hills, That from my brow drives care away, Until he comes— the Holy One. And ends in song among the trees. Grace Ingles Frost. Salt Lake City, Utah.