---
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: 13
number: 5
published: 1910-03
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Curtis, Theo. E., "Here, Upon Thy Holy Mountain," *Improvement Era* 13, no. 5 (March 1910): 390.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera135unse
  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: improvementera135unse
start_page: 390
end_page: 390
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1910-03)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera135unse
  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.
---

# Here, Upon Thy Holy Mountain


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390                     IMPROVEMENT ERA.

where encountered. The work in cement mentioned by Helaman
was found by Mr. Cook to still be preserved in the ruins.
No exact dates can be determined, from the workings of the
forces in nature, but     the   vegetation in     Central America,    the
number and distribution of the lower forms of animal life in the
forests,   and the erosions indicate, as nearly as such things can,
that the dates given in the  Book of Mormon are correct.
As time goes on and the field of human knowledge is widened,
it   becomes more obvious that the story of the ancient civilization
in America, as it is being told to scientists by      "rock and tree," is
the same story that was told to the boy prophet by "the voice
from the ground" a generation ago.
Ithaca, N. Y.

Here, Upon      Thy Holy Mountain.
{For the Improvement Era.)

Here, upon thy holy mountain,
Lord, a living prophecy,
Under Truth's celestial fountain,
Lo, thy people wait for thee.

Soon the sky shall roll asunder,
And proclaim thy mighty name
In eternal peals of thunder
From thy chariots of flame.

Hangs thy sword o'er shrine and steeple,
And o'er Mammon's crowded halls;
Lord, reclaim thy chosen people,
Ere thy pending judgment fahs.

Lift us up from every nation
Into thine eternal rest,
When the world to condemnation,
Sees thy glory manifest.
Theo. E. Curtis.