---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 15
number: 4
published: 1912-02
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "A Prayer," *Improvement Era* 15, no. 4 (February 1912): 345.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1504unse
  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: improvementera1504unse
start_page: 345
end_page: 345
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1912-02)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1504unse
  publication_year: 1912
  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 1912, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# A Prayer

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A Prayer Our Father, who, from glorious mansions,
 Crowned with light and love,
 Sends upon your earthly children Sacred blessings from above.

 Give to me another blessing,
 One that kings might envy me;
 Not the wealth of pearls and diamonds,
 Nor all the "lands beyond the sea,"
 Nor the fame that men are seeking Won by victory in a fight Give to me a nobler calling,
 One to know and do the right.
 C. W. COTTAM Cedab Citt, Utah.