---
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: 12
number: 5
published: 1909-03
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Frost, Grace Ingles, "Pebbles," *Improvement Era* 12, no. 5 (March 1909): 351.'
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: 351
end_page: 351
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.
---

# Pebbles

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PEBBLES.
Cast into a placid stream a stone, however small;
Does it disappear, or leave a trace that it did fall?
It sinks, but leaves behind it a stream deprived of rest,
For time encircling ripples now agitate its breast.
Of thoughts, of words, of actions, we should most careful be;
For it is ever so with all — with all humanity.
We know not how our pebbles may Life's stream agitate;
Then let them only — great or small — disturb to elevate.
Grace Ingles Frost.
Salt Lake City, Utah.