--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Kohlberg, William J. 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: 'William J. Kohlberg, "God’s Victory," *Improvement Era* 13, no. 2 (December 1909): 171.' 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: 171 end_page: 171 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. --- # God’s Victory SOME MEN WHO HAVE DONE THINGS. 171 Men and boys, whether your own or others, will always do better work, they will take more pride in their work, when you give them good tools to work with. in a word, I'd make the conditions on the farm just as favorable to cheerfulness and contentment as I could. "Do you think my boy would become disgusted with farm- life then, and want to become a clerk in a store, a bookkeeper, a dependent worker for daily wage in town or city?" Salt Lake City, Utah. God's Victory. (For the Improvement Era.) When people think we're mad Because they cannot see, And we pity and turn glad Is that not victory? When we are sore derided Through hate and jealousy, And then leave foes unchided Is that not victory? When we can give the slighted More aid than sympathy, And then leave foes unchided— Is that not victory? When we can make all discord Strike tones for harmony, And then hear one great concord— Is that not victory? When we can see great visions How all might happy be, And then change world conditions- Is that not victory? When last we see the greatest good In strong posterity, And then train youth for parenthood- Is that not victory?