--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Tain, C. E. R. collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 13 number: 3 published: 1910-01 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Tain, C. E. R., "Battle Hymn," *Improvement Era* 13, no. 3 (January 1910): 202.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1303unse 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: improvementera1303unse start_page: 202 end_page: 202 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1910-01) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1303unse publication_year: 1910 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 1910, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Battle Hymn — 202 IMPROVEMENT ERA. products had place, would produce the impression of design and purpose, much more forcibly are we driven to the same conclusion when we see order growing out of chaos, peace out of strife, and apparently intractable material moulded to artistic perfection. The background of struggle, pain, decay and seeming waste may be in itself difficult to account for; but the result shows that behind the working of the principles of Variation and Natural Selection there must be intelligence, will, purpose. The Design-argument may have been stated in the past, in such a way as to expose it to the criticism of scientists; but the argument itself — especially when broadly and generally treated has only gained strength and illumination from the modern view of nature's working methods; for "Evolution," as Asa Gray said to Darwin, "has brought back teleology to science." [TO BE CONCLUDED IN FEBRUARY NUMBER] Battle Hymn. (For the Improvement Era.) God save Columbia free, Let then each bosom be Bright home of liberty, Bulwark of liberty, Guard her high destiny, Owning its majesty, Hedge it with peace. Guarding its fame. But, should an alien host Dealing on land or waves, Dare sully Freedom's coast, Death to the tyrant slaves, Let war then meet their boast Heaping their ready graves With full surcease. High with their shame. Let, then, grim battle roar, God grant Columbia fair, Bathing our steel in gore, Brave sons to do and dare, Hurling swift vengeance o'er Daughters that virtue wear Glory's red field; As a bright crown. Sharp be our eagle's claws may they ever be, Striking in Freedom's cause, Worthy of liberty, Fearless of foes, because Worthy of victory, Right is our shield. And wide renown. C. E. R. Tain. Col. Diaz, Mexico.