--- 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, "The Voice of the Shepherd," *Improvement Era* 14, no. 3 (January 1911): 201.' 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: 201 end_page: 201 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. --- # The Voice of the Shepherd PRESIDENT BRIGHAM YOUNG' S EXCURSION PARTY. 201 bowery, which had just been erected for the occasion. On the s*and sat the great "Mormon" leader, President Brigham Young, surrounded on three sides by the following intellectual giants and mighty men of God: Apostles Orson Hyde, Orson Pratt, John Taylor, Wilford Woodruff, George A. Smith, Amasa M. Lyman, Ezra T. Benson, Lorenzo Snow and Franklin D. Richards. Six meetings were held during a two days' conference, and a sweet and peaceful spirit permeated the large assemblage. Everyone present felt the solemnity of the occasion, as they listened in earnest silence to their great leaders, whom they sincerely revered and regarded with love and admiration. Tears trickled down the cheeks of the faithful Saints, many of whom, without a murmur, had turned their backs on comfortable homes in the northern counties, and, in obedience to God's servants, settled in this far-off, desert land. The almost insurmountable difficulties which they overcame, the trials through which they passed, and the sacrifices which they made for the cause of Zion, will never be known nor understood this side of the Millennium. God bless their posterity forever! (to be continued.) The Voice of the Shepherd. (For the Improvement Era.) Lean on mine ample arm, oh thou deprest! And I will bid the storm cease in thy breast. Whate'er thy lot may be, On life's complaining sea, If thou wilt come to me, thou shalt have rest. Lift up thy tearful eyes, sad heart, to me; I am the sacrifice offered for thee. In me thy pain shall cease, In me is thy release, In me thou shalt have peace eternally. Theodore E. Curtis.