--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 10 number: 2 published: 1906-12 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "“Try.”: A Poem," *Improvement Era* 10, no. 2 (December 1906): 134–135.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1002unse 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: improvementera1002unse start_page: 134 end_page: 135 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1906-12) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1002unse 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. --- # “Try.”: A Poem — 134 IMPROVEMENT ERA. they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent." Reason teaches us that we can know only that which comes within the compass of our faculties, and that our appreciation of that which is wi thout is measured by the capacity of that which is within. Then the natural conclusion must be that if we are ever to inherit eternal life the germ of Divinity must be within us. It is that which enalles us to worship, or, in other words, to appreciate the 'Veorscipe'' of God, and in- spire the soul to reach out towards that perfection. In this light, that important factor of all religion means something more than the observance of mysterious and incomprehensible ceremonies of a dead form, but implies real development according to an intelligible plan of life, which is based upon a perfect knowledge of its object, and given by One who knows all things from the beginning to the end thereof. Such worship consists of something more than the chanting of hymns and the reading of prayers. It is of the heart as well as the lips. Who is the Creator of heaven and earth that he is to be flat- tered by our inconsistent devotion — loudly proclaiming his virtues, yet striving not to possess them! We show our highest regard !,for any example by following it, and the only sincere praise we can give, and real proof of our appreciation of his ' "weorthscipe, ' is the growth that we make in his image. Provo, Utah. TRY.' It takes some courage and some hard knocks, the doing of manly deeds, A bout with strifes in his early life's forenoon, if a man succeeds. — One can't win battles on beds of ease, I'd fain on this point enlarge; Now there, now here, one must persevere with skirmish and flank and charge. The wall of the fort Good Luck defends is never so hard to climb As to thwart the plan of the youth or man assaulting it one more time. So buckle your belt up one more hole, discouragements all defy, There is plenty to do neath these skies of blue, if a feller's inclined to try! —Selected. RANDY. BY ELVIN J. NORTON, SUPERINTENDENT Y. M. M. I. A., POCATELLO STAKE. .. ^ • 'H I. It was not usual that the Westside people could enjoy sleighriding at Christmas time: but this year the substantial coat of snow would make the regular Chrismas Eve dance more successful than ever. At any rate, this was one of the conclusions reached by the boys who were standing outside the schoolhouse which they had arranged for the evening's party. "What's Christmas time for, if not to dance and sleigh-ride?" asked Dick Rogers, twirling a broom handle round his fingers.