---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Alder, Lydia D.
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 10
number: 10
published: 1907-08
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Lydia D. Alder, "Recompense," *Improvement Era* 10, no. 10 (August 1907): 806.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera10010unse
  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: improvementera10010unse
start_page: 806
end_page: 806
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1907-08)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera10010unse
  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.
---

# Recompense

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RECOMPENSE. {For the Improvement Era.) For every tear and every sigh, There is a thrill of bliss; The waves that break upon the shore, Return to gently kiss And through our lives Love's fondest dream, Uur paths we'll glorify, If we but for the morrow wait, God's goodness ne'er deny. The even balancings of life, He holds within his hands, Then confident await the day, The Perfect proves his plan. Lydia D. Alder. Salt Lake City, Utah.