--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Mitton, Sarah E. collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 11 number: 4 published: 1908-02 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Sarah E. Mitton, "Strive with Self: A Poem," *Improvement Era* 11, no. 4 (February 1908): 283.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1104unse 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: improvementera1104unse start_page: 283 end_page: 283 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1908-02) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1104unse publication_year: 1908 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 1908, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Strive with Self: A Poem HOW ADVANTAGES ARE LOST. 283 is a blessing, then we lose that blessing when we fail to be punctual to the appointed hour of meeting. And, oh ! how many blessings must have been lost in some of the wards of the Church, and in some of the Quorums of the Priesthood, because of tardiness in commencing meetings, at the appointed hour ! In each persons' own experience , the time of starting meetings has been so delayed that his own mortal patience has become completely exhausted, and he ha^s left, thus losing blessings that always come from the instructions and counsels of the Priesthood so mercifully provided by our Father in heaven. Tooele, Utah. STRIVE WITH SELF. {For the Improvement Era.) 'Tis with self we should strive. 'Tis the pledge that we keep. And the vows we hold true ; The ideals we aim at, And keep in our view; 'Tis the virtue we foster, The vice we condemn, The example we set, For the guidance of men; 'Tis the deed of the hour. The plan of the day, — That time is recording And storing away. Thus seal we our own fate, And write we our doom. And pave we our own way, From cradle to tomb. Sarah E. Mitton. Paradise, Utah.