---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Crocheron, George W.
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 10
number: 9
published: 1907-07
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'George W. Crocheron, "The Reign of Love," *Improvement Era* 10, no. 9 (July 1907): 688.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1009unse
  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: improvementera1009unse
start_page: 688
end_page: 688
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1907-07)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1009unse
  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.
---

# The Reign of Love

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THE REIGN OF LOVE. {For the Improvement Era.) Selfishness is a cruel thing to hold within one's breast, While love produceth all things good, and gives the soul sweet rest. Love! thou king of conquerors! how gentle is thy reign! Thy precious worth while here on earth I ever will proclaim! If love be at the helm, friend, while crossing life's rough sea, You can steer your bark however dark to the portal of safety. Lovers' loves are blissful, but the greatest love supreme, to gain, Is the love of God within the soul — priceless and without stain. When earth shall rest and millennial joys to Saints be given, The reign of Love will then commence, and Idumea shall be Heaven. George W. Crocheron. Salt Lake City, Utah.