---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Steele, F. C.
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 17
number: 3
published: 1914-01
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'F. C. Steele, "Peace and Rest. A Poem," *Improvement Era* 17, no. 3 (January 1914): 236.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1703unse
  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: improvementera1703unse
start_page: 236
end_page: 236
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1914-01)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1703unse
  publication_year: 1914
  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 1914, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Peace and Rest. A Poem

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236
IMPROVEMENT ERA
men who live in the desert tell stories of animal endurance that
eclipse anything here written. Perhaps one might well take some
of the stories "with a grain of salt," for in areas where there is
apparently no water, the Indians and native animals instinctively
find hidden water
pockets or small, still
springs, which a
stranger to the coun7
try might never find.
The painted desert
has many such hidden treasures of water. It can hardly be
questioned, however,
that the native desert
animals have wonderful adaptation to their
native environment.
The native horses and
burros used by the
Utah Expedition
showed much greater
endurance and thirst-resistance than the animals not desert-bred.
In some instances some of them went as long as two days without
drinking and without apparently suffering greatly.
(The next article of this series will deal with ceramic and other
arts of the cliff dwellers.)
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mm
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Photo by W. IV. Stratton, Utah Arch. Ex*ed.
EDWIN NATURAL BRIDGE
The Utah Archaeological Expedition seen crossing
this natural wonder in San Juan county, Utah. This
is the smallest of the four bridges, any one of which
is larger than Virginia's wonder. Its arch is 108 feet
high, and its span 194 feet. In the center the arch
is only 10 feet thick.
Peace and Rest
Rest in the hope of just reward,
Rest in the thought of duty done ;
Rest on the arm of a loving Lord
And the joy of a battle won.
Peace, for no pain shall burn thy brow,
Peace, for the night has passed away ;
Peace, for the east is now aglow
With the light of eternal day.
Sleep, for the Lord is near thy side.
Sleep, for the crown of life is thine ;
Sleep, for thy soul fore'er shall bide
In the haven of saints divine.
F. C. Steele.
MAGRATH, ALBERTA