Come, Sing the Praise

&32 IMPRO VEMENT ERA . "In Mu-Kun-Tu-Weap, I listened nightly to the tu-whit, tu- whoo of an owl, but there is not a sound on the desert. There was silence absolute. How wonderful was the dawn! How vivid that line of ruddy fire, — the low, sun-touched cliff-edges of the distant plateaus and mesas where the Rio Virgen is lost in the Colorado." Come, See the Place. (For the Improvement Era.) An earthquake rends the shiv'ring ground — The angel rolls the stone away, Says to the women standing there, "Come, see the place where the Lord lay." "He is not here, for he is risen," They hear the snow-white angel say; "And fear not, ye who seek the Lord — Come, see the place where the Lord lay." "Be not afraid!" his voice assures — As prostrate at his feet they pray; Then, confident, they gaze within, To see the place where the Lord lay. 0 glorious day when Christ declared: "See, I am risen from the dead! I'll meet them there in Galilee; Go tell my brethren," Jesus said. They saw but angels in the tomb — Where lay his feet and where his head, But he would be in Galilee — "Would meet them there," his own voice said. Lo! he is risen from the dead! And thrills each heart this Easter day That to the world this truth was shown, The tomb was empty where he lay. Lydia D. Alder.