--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Frost, Grace Ingles collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 11 number: 11 published: 1908-09 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Frost, Grace Ingles, "Press On: A Poem," *Improvement Era* 11, no. 11 (September 1908): 871.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera11011unse 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: improvementera11011unse start_page: 871 end_page: 871 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1908-09) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera11011unse 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. --- # Press On: A Poem ROMANCE OF A MISSIONARY. 871 Then they visited the Cartwright Memorial Hall and beautiful Chellow Dean. The middle of the afternoon found them resting on a seat in Peel park. They talked until train time, and then Grace went to the station with him. She promised to write and tell him how Elsa progressed, and also when she herself would be coming to London on her way to Berlin. In the second letter which Willard received from her, this paragraph appeared: And now, I have decided not to go to Berlin; at least, not at this time. This may appear like backing out, but I can't help it. I am not well yet, and I do not feel able to go to a strange city and begin my work which will not be easy. I am going back home, and Elsa Fernley is going with me. We are to set out just as soon as she is strong enough. I have written to my friends on the Continent, and I think they will be ready to go home about the time we are. I shall drop you a card saying goodby when we are ready to leave. Love to the Lorings. When do you expect to be released? When you find out let me know. I shall be waiting over home. [TO BE CONCLUDED IN THE OCTOBER NUMBER.] PRESS ON. (For the Improvement Era.) There ne'er will be a hill to climb, So high that man, with aid divine, May not attain its height by work ; They only fail who strive to shirk The burdens to be borne. We reach the plain, where shines the sun, But by surmounting, one by one, The obstacles that throng the way, And, leaving them behind each day, Undauntedly press on. The sun ne'er rests, but ever true Smiles on alway, seen by the few; Oft shadows in its pathway tower, But it o'ercometh by its power To cheerfully press on. Waterloo, Utah. Grace Ingles Frost.