--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Frost, Grace Ingles collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 14 number: 9 published: 1911-07 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Grace Ingles Frost, "Cast Not the Stone: A Poem," *Improvement Era* 14, no. 9 (July 1911): 815.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1409unse 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: improvementera1409unse start_page: 815 end_page: 815 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1911-07) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1409unse 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. --- # Cast Not the Stone: A Poem WHAT A HUNGARIAN GENTLEMAN WRITES. 815 Such a faith demands reverence. It comes to him who prays to God, and no one has the right to deprive him of it. * * * In the year 1896, Utah was admitted to the Union as a state,on condition that the people would do away with polygamy. Since then, no one has been permitted to enter into a plural marriage. If they do, they are expelled from the Church. However, all plural marriages entered into up to that time were held valid. * * * I also saw the president, Joseph F. Smith, a graybearded patriarch. He was just signing a check. He was greatly pleased to hear from me that there are seventeen Hungarian families living in Salt Lake City, and fifteen of these are "Mormons," each family having a home of its own. "This I didn't know," said the "Mormon" clergyman. He then introduced to me his twenty-second son. They then asked that if I should write of them to only write the truth. That is what I have written. . Arpad Pasztor. Cast not the Stone. (For the Improvement Era.) Cast not the stone, 0 man, cast not the stone! The ruin that is wrought By sex of thine, what lacks it In completeness? Is it nought To thee, that woman bears the pain? Must she have, too, the stones? Oh, shame' shame! shame! Cast not the stone, 0 man! cast not the stone E'en though thy hands be clean! The lips that with coarse insult part, A boasted strength bemean. 'Tis man alone, to woman's heart, Can bring the scarlet bane; And then, wouldst hurl the stone? More shame! shame! shame! Grace Ingles Frost. Waterloo, Utah.