---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Unknown
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 17
number: 2
published: 1913-12
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Unknown, "The Morning Breaks," *Improvement Era* 17, no. 2 (December 1913): 157–159.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1702unse
  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: improvementera1702unse
start_page: 157
end_page: 159
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1913-12)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1702unse
  publication_year: 1913
  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 1913, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# The Morning Breaks

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The Morning Breaks

(This selection is for the Junior Boys' Choruses, to be sung by- contestant's, at the final M. I. A. contest, June, 1914.)

Parley P. Pratt

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THE MORNING BREAKS. A little slower. 2nd Soprano.

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The gen-tile fulness now comes in,

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Is - rael's blessings are at hand,

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Note— Full sheet copy, with piano or organ accompaniment, should be procured for the accompanist; regular price 40 cents. Author will send to M. I. A. at reduced price of 25 cents per copy. Address, E. Stephens, corner 12th South and State Sts., Salt Lake City, Utah.

A Christmas Thought

He came a guest, yet' no one bade him stay, E'en though with him came love-gifts for us all; No room for him, a stranger in their hall. They thrust him out, nor cared what might befall, For whom they wail in sackcloth till this day.

Men's hearts are touched with thoughts of Bethlehem, Where love-songs floated down the heavenly way; And heaven lay close to earth, on that glad day, When Christ was born with a right to reign alway

As Prince and King o'er all the world of men.

Lydia D. Alder.