---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Young, Brigham S.
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 12
number: 8
published: 1909-06
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Brigham S. Young, "Choose Thou For Me," *Improvement Era* 12, no. 8 (June 1909): 620.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1208unse
  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: improvementera1208unse
start_page: 620
end_page: 620
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1909-06)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1208unse
  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.
---

# Choose Thou For Me

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ward motion, he holds his chisel with one hand and feet and cuts
away.   Hut they become experts at this work, and do it with as
much ease as a turner would with a modern lathe.
Aintab, Turkey.

                       CHOOSE THOU FOR ME.

                          (For the Improvement Era.)

                   Teach me the way of life, dear Lord,
                     And make me strong for what will be;
                   That I may live by every word,
                     Choose thou for me-

                   Though dark the lonely way and drear,
                     My groping path I dimly see;
                   That I may walk in thy great fear,
                     Choose thou for me.

                   And when my recreant heart would lead
                     My willing feet away from thee,
                   And e'en though sorrow be my need,
                     Choose thou for me.

                   Help me, great Sire, to be thy son,

                     And do thy will whate'er it be,
                   That thou at last may say "well done,"
                     Choose thou for me.
                                                          Brigham S. Young.
Raymond, Canada.