---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Stewart, M. A.
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 10
number: 11
published: 1907-09
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: "M. A. Stewart, \"Listen to the Spirit's Voice: A Poem,\" *Improvement Era* 10, no. 11 (September 1907): 881."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera10011unse
  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: improvementera10011unse
start_page: 881
end_page: 881
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1907-09)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera10011unse
  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.
---

# Listen to the Spirit's Voice: A Poem

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LISTEN TO THE SPIRIT'S VOICE.
(For the Improvement Era.)
Oh listen to the Spirit's voice, Oh listen to the Spirit's voice,
'Twill guide you through each day, The tempter then will flee;
And plant your feet more firmly in If you will heed that warning voice,
He'll ne'er return to thee.
The straight and narrow way.
Oh listen to the Spirit's voice, Oh listen to the Spirit's voice,
And then you'll be secure; When your cross seems hard to bear,
Though Satan's hosts may do their best For close beside that cross I see
Your pathway to obscure. The Savior kneeling there.
Oh listen to the Spirit's voice; Oh listen to the Spirit's voice,
Oh listen while you're free, You will be happy then,
For unto whom you list to serve, For Father said : "My Spirit will
His servant you will be. Not always strive with men."
Oh listen to the Spirit's voice Oh listen to the Spirit's voice,
While youth is in it's bloom, His call is one of love
Wait not until your friends have laid 'Twill lead you back to Father's house,
Your body in the tomb In his mansions up above.
M. A. Stewart,
Mesa, Arizona.