--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Davenport, E. Remington collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 11 number: 12 published: 1908-10 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Davenport, E. Remington, "The Greater Fault: A Poem," *Improvement Era* 11, no. 12 (October 1908): 919.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera11012unse 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: improvementera11012unse start_page: 919 end_page: 919 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1908-10) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera11012unse 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 Greater Fault: A Poem ROMANCE OF A MISSIONARY. 919 yet in the spirit, "looked, and behold a door was opened in heaven;'' and he heard a voice which said, "Come up hither, and I will show thee things which must be hereafter." (the end.) THE GREATER FAULT. (For the Improvement Era.) Without sin in this probation, Spotless stands but One alone; Yet we see, in all creation, Failings, only not our own . Faults of others, so much larger By our own faults magnified, Pass the lips of each accuser, Graver made and multiplied. Thus our tale, enlarged when starting, Ends in falsehood, low and base; And the spirit of truth departing Leaves this world a dismal place. Let us, then, when we are tempted To find fault with others, thus, Think that they when likewise prompted, Could as well find fault with us. E. Remington Davenport. Srasso (Kronstadt), Hungary.