---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Hyde, W. A.
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 12
number: 5
published: 1909-03
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Hyde, W. A., "Life Indeed," *Improvement Era* 12, no. 5 (March 1909): 370.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1205unse
  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: improvementera1205unse
start_page: 370
end_page: 370
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1909-03)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1205unse
  publication_year: 1909
  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 1909, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Life Indeed

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LIFE INDEED.
To be in the sunlight of success, yet feel my littleness; to be
under the cloud of reverses, yet feel my strength; to have the
patience of faith and the power of purpose; to know the pure and
love it; instinctively to know a lie and to abhor it; and hating all
lies, to be so near the fountain of truth that I may not thirst in
vain; to square my soul with the Infinite each hour by prayer; to be
denied, yet still believe; to love others much and to be loved a
little in return; to recognize in common things, — the song, the
flower, labor, laughter and bright eyes,— the tenderness of God;
to have good books, and so good thoughts; to feel ever in my
heart the promise; to lookup, — to smile, — this were life indeed!
W. A. Hyde.
Pocatello, Idaho.