---
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: 9
published: 1909-07
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Grace Ingles Frost, "I Know," *Improvement Era* 12, no. 9 (July 1909): 692.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1209unse
  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: improvementera1209unse
start_page: 692
end_page: 692
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1909-07)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1209unse
  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.
---

# I Know

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692                       IMPR VEMENT ERA                 .

Tooele county.      This position he held until the office was abolished
by act of the legislature.           In the f all of 1902 he           was elected a
member      of the State Legislature,            as    a representative of Tooele
County, and two years later became state chairman of the Repub-
lican p~rty.    March of 1905, he was appointed a member of
                  In
the State Board of Land Commissioners, and was elected presi-
                                                                              ,_
dent of the board.            In this position he served until t e 15th of
February, 1906, when he took charge of the United States Marsh-
al's    Office for the   district of       Utah, having been appointed by
President Roosevelt in January of that year.                     It   was in the fall
of     1908, that he was elected Governor of the                      State        of   Utah,
succeeding Governor John C. Cutler,               in   January, 1909.

Salt Lake City, Utah.

                                         KNOW.

                          (For the Improvement

                          I   know in whom I trust:
                              My Father, God and King,
                          I   know thy word is sure,
                              That it will one day bring
                          My weary, earth-bound soul
                              Back unto thee once more.
                          I shall not   knock in vain;
                              If I   prove true, the door
                          Will open wide to me.

                          I   know in whom I trust.
                               Tho' fierce the battle-cry,
                          The foe can ne'er o'ercome
                              When thou, my King, art nigh.
                          Then give me strength each day
                            To live more near to thee,
                          To love and work and give,
                               To wait and watch and pray,
                          Till thou shalt call   me home,
                                                              Grace Ingles Frost.
Salt Lake City, Utah.