---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Hogenson, J. C.
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 17
number: 5
published: 1914-03
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'J. C. Hogenson, "Stand by the Right, Always," *Improvement Era* 17, no. 5 (March 1914): 475.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1705unse
  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: improvementera1705unse
start_page: 475
end_page: 475
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1914-03)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1705unse
  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.
---

# Stand by the Right, Always

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HEBREW IDIOMS IN THE BOOK OF MORMON 475
the statutes * * * of the Lord."— II Nep. 1 :16. "And we
did observe to keep the judgments." — II Nep. 5:10, * * *
"Ye are eternally indebted to your heavenly Father, to render to
him all that you have and are;" (Mos. 2:34,) "and should render" harmonizes better with our idiom. "Have ye taught this
people that they should observe to do?" Mos. 13:25. "He doth
remember all my commandments to execute them." — Alma 18:10.
"But ve do always remember your riches, not to thank God for
them"— Hela. 13:22. See also Alma 49:14; 57:21; 58:40;
Hela. 3: 20; Moro, 7:30.
(to be continued)
Stand by the Right, Always
BY J. C. HOGENSON, OF THE STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE
There are many people in the world who are afraid to stand
up for the right, and to state and act their convictions, because
those convictions, though known to be right, are not popular with
the general crowd ; and the person stating or acting them might
lose his social standing and prestige.
Leaders among men, men who have achieved prominence in
the world, have always been fearless in standing up for the right,
and in stating their convictions, no matter what the consequences
that follow might be. Take such men as Christopher Columbus,
Martin Luther, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Joseph
Smith. All were fearless and true to their ideas of truth and
right. That is the only brave, true, manly, and God-fearing way.
Let us, if we are ever tempted to do otherwise, remember the
poem on "Freedom," by James Russell Lowell, which says :
"They are slaves who fear to speak
For the fallen and the weak;
They are slaves who will not choose
Hatred, scoffing and abuse, _
Rather than in silence shrink
From the truth they needs must think;
They are slaves who dare not be
In the right with two or three."
"Stand close to all, but lean on none,
And if the crowd desert you,
Stand just as fearlessly alone
As if a throng begirt you."
Remember our own beautiful hymn : "Do what is right, let
the consequence follow ;" and, "God will protect you, do what is
right."
LOGAN, UTAH