---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Curtis, Theo. E.
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 11
number: 5
published: 1908-03
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Theo. E. Curtis, "The Church of Latter-days: A Poem," *Improvement Era* 11, no. 5 (March 1908): 368.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1105unse
  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: improvementera1105unse
start_page: 368
end_page: 368
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1908-03)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1105unse
  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.
---

# The Church of Latter-days: A Poem

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THE CHURCH OF LATTER-DAYS. (For the Improvement Era.) The Church of latter- days doth stand A rare old organ, rich and grand. The great musician, God; and these — The Priesthood — the responsive keys. And when, with perfect touch, the Lord's Own fingers fall upon the chords, The waking tones — a wond'rous birth Of harmony — flood all the earth With echo, while the nations pause, With listening Israel's applause. Theo. E. Curtls. Salt Lake City, Utah.