--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Pratt, Parley Parker collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 10 number: 5 published: 1907-03 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Pratt, Parley P., "An Unpublished Poem," *Improvement Era* 10, no. 5 (March 1907): 392.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1005unse 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: improvementera1005unse start_page: 392 end_page: 392 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1907-03) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1005unse publication_year: 1907 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 1907, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # An Unpublished Poem 392 IMPROVEMENT ERA. Then decide upon a consistent line of work. Do likewise in the case of other faults. Organize your officers, acquaint them with your arrangement and purpose. See that the plan in detail is carried out by every man assigned to a place, and there is no question, under such organization, as to the results. You shall succeed. The superintendent and his aids, however, must have every detail in hand, and then strenuously, but with kindness and with spirit, insist upon having their workers co-operate in the perform- ance of the task. This requires meetings for planning and for report- ing work; and, above all, it requires labor on the part of those who are in charge, as well as on the part of those who are appointed to perform the details. But the results are just as certain as the truth that when we obtain any blessing from God, it is by obedience to the law upon which such blessing is predicated. Real success in any line is predicated on persistent work. It is so, as well, in matters of Mutual Improvement. Try it. NOTICE TO ERA AGENTS AND SUBSCRIBERS. Owing to the general desire of our recent subscribers, to have a complete volume of the Era for this year, which promises to be one of the most interesting ever published, the General Board consented to a reprinting of No. 1, Vol. X, which had been sold out; so that we shall be prepared in a few days to supply every subscriber and many new ones with this number, and also with all the back numbers of this volume of the magazine. Officers will kindly speak of this in all their stake and ward officers' meet- ings. We hope to receive a large number of new subscriptions, especially from wards and stakes that have not heretofore made much effort to obtain subscribers for Volume X. AN UNPUBLISHED POEM. The Era is favored with this interesting note from Elder A. Milton Musser: Over fifty years ago, while with other elders I was waiting, at San Francisco, to secure transportation to Hindoostan, some one gave me the following song,