--- 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, Theodore E. collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 14 number: 3 published: 1911-01 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Theodore E. Curtis, "Thou Art Everywhere Before Us," *Improvement Era* 14, no. 3 (January 1911): 245.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1403unse 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: improvementera1403unse start_page: 245 end_page: 245 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1911-01) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1403unse publication_year: 1911 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 1911, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Thou Art Everywhere Before Us THE NEPHITE SHEPHERD. 245 Hand in hand they went to a stone seat on a little eminence in the garden, and there sat waiting and watching. A picture of beauty they were. Zira, her long, dark braids of hair hanging down her back, the white silk robe, loosely fastened at her throat, revealed a neck of spotless white. Lamoni, with the curse of Laman removed, was a peer in manly grace, if not a superior, to any of his Nephite brethren. The sun disappeared; expectation increased; every moment of time was carefully counted, the heavens watched. A star here and there became dimly visible, gradually growing brighter. Twilight faded away, and with it the hopes of many of the despairing. (TO BE CONCLUDED IN FEBRUARY ERA.) Thou Art Everywhere Before Us. {For the Improvement Era.) Thou art everywhere before us, Lord, dispelling all our fears, In the blue dome arching o'er us Pregnant with her plunging spheres. In the seasons, slowly filing Down the ages' broad expanse, We behold thee kindly smiling Through fair nature's countenance. In the love-light softly glowing Deep in every human breast, In the blessings to us flowing, Thy great love is manifest. All things point to thy parental Hand, 0 gracious Lord, but most We may know thee through the gentle Whisper of the Holy Ghost. Theodore E. Curtis.