---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Lyon, John Sr.
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 13
number: 2
published: 1909-12
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'John Lyon Sr., "Confidence," *Improvement Era* 13, no. 2 (December 1909): 143.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1302unse
  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: improvementera1302unse
start_page: 143
end_page: 143
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1909-12)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1302unse
  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.
---

# Confidence

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JOHN LYON, POET AND WRITER.                                       l   i;:




Friends," which now hangs in the President's "Hie,., Salt Lake City.
At the time of his release he was in his eighty-seventh year. His
remains rest in the city cemetery in Sail Lake City. On a monu-
ment erected on the burial lot is inscribed a fragmenl of verse,
written by the author some time before           his demise.         It   is   hardly
probable that he ever thought         it   would grace his own monument.
It was   discovered among his effects on the day         of    his   death.           It

reads:
                         We'll meet together yel
                         Where the sun shall never sel
                         With a welcome of the ha ml
                         And a love without regret.
Salt Lake City, Utah.




                         Confidence— A Sonnet.


            Confidence is our earthly joy in time,
               Our heavenly hope in God, our trust in man;
               If such   morality would lead the van
            In this degenerate age of doubt and crime.
            How rich would man be e'en without a dime!
               Thank God, there's some amongst our sinful race
               Who've shunned the evils of this sad disgr.
            Yes, priest and novice, led by the sublime
            Who've placed their faith and confidence in God,
               Shunning the thorns where folly strewed the way,
            Tho' pained to walk on, have devoutly trod
               Believing, trusting goodness to obey
            Amidst derision, hungry and unshod.
               Have won the bliss of an immortal day!


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