--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Curtis, Theo. E. collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 12 number: 10 published: 1909-08 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Theo. E. Curtis, "Hush, My Heart," *Improvement Era* 12, no. 10 (August 1909): 788–790.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera12010unse 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: improvementera12010unse start_page: 788 end_page: 790 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1909-08) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera12010unse 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. --- # Hush, My Heart problems and character are not understood and handled by any precedent established in other missions. Therefore, there needs be no surprise on the part of the saint when told that service no longer and sacrifice no greater than that ordinarily given by our missionaries in even the hardest of other missions is not very pro- ductive, and unless this mission can have work and workers pro. portionate to its needs, it will remain in swaddling clothes and slumber in its cradle indefinitely. Therefore, if all who now have, and all who may hereafter form, relations with the Japan Mission, will keep these points in mind and hold them with the earnestness with which they are given, the future need not repeat the history of the past — a history of premature releases. And if these words are taken to heart and carried out in good faith, from now on, our sacrifice of both means and time and dear associations for the re- demption of this nation will be sufficient in the eyes of the Lord, and he will add blessings and help hitherto unknown among us. Tokyo, June 2, 1909. HUSH, MY HEART. (For the Improvement Era.) Words and Music by Theo. E. Curtis. .0 0f^p.(Z. ^i — I —— HUSH, MY HEART. 789 — *-»-F =Jt- f*- EE= Hush, my heart, forbear your weep - ing, For your Let no cloud still in the raor • row, Cast a Death is but a win - ter, crush - ing Down the ^: 1 -X— L-J 1 1 , fs , -=1 ——0v 1 — m- F- -*—v J lit - tie fad - ed flower Is not dead, she's only shadow forth to - day; From the past awake no lil - ies in the glen; Soon life's fountains will be 3 ^dip^ilig #'# fe -£-- I : *=3 : J: sleep - ing In the shadow of the bow - er. &or - row, For our woes shall pass a way. - gush - ing, And your flow'r will bloom a gain. - 3: 3 =F ^ ^ V- S ^=E.3E / / i ' -; ?l - £ e Through your sobs I hear you call - ing Back the Er ror flees and truth is stream ing - - O'er the Hush, my heart, those tears of sor - row Bring not dream that is no more, And your tears, like rain, are cloud that dis - ap - pears, And be- gets a rain - bow back your i - dol flown; Peace, there is no death, to -•- -#- -•- -• We^ee z^Z2VZf~E*=&=5 N-^- -.»— II fall - ing, Fall - ing on the riv - er shore, gleam - ing In the show'r of hu - man tears, mor - row Life and love shall claim their own. £3=i^!g r V- &: f -*-— * m