---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Laura Moench Jenkins
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 17
number: 7
published: 1914-05
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Laura Moench Jenkins, "Peace," *Improvement Era* 17, no. 7 (May 1914): 611–612.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1707unse
  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: improvementera1707unse
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1914-05)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1707unse
  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

Peace

Peace, peace, throughout the wide world, peace.

Cease, cease, ye raving war gods, cease!

What mean these cries of blood and war,

These strikes, this turmoil near and far?

Look to the west and you shall see

The Dragon War King bend his knee,

While in the east, so clear and bright,

The Shepherd's star sends forth its light.

Oh, Dragon War King, thou must fall,

Thy bloody voice must cease its call,

Thy doom has come, thy day is o'er,

Thy head shall bend to rise no more.

The time is ripe, and on this earth

The Day of Peace has had its birth.

Now race to race its own shall give,

And all in brotherhood shall live.

Turn to the east and, rising there,

Behold the Shepherd's star so fair.

How sweet, how tranquil, how serene,

It casts afar itsshining sheen.

Lo, angel voices sing again:

"Peace to the earth, good will to men;"

And Christ at last doth reign as King.

Hark! how the lingering echoes ring.

"Peace to 'the earth, to man good will."

With joy each loving heart shall thrill,

And charity and mercy beam,

For right and justice reign supreme.

All flesh doth know 'tis crime to kill

E'en firecest beast, for God doth will

That sin upon this earth shall cease,

That all shall know the joy of Peace.

Oh, nations, look ye to the day,

When armies gathered for the fray

Shall turn in peace each to his way,

For harmony and love hold sway.

Long have we heard the battle cry,

And watched our loved ones fall and die,

Long have our souls with grief been wrung,

While bravest hearts those war-songs sung.

Oh, God of Peace, who reigns on high,

To us, thy children, now draw nigh;

Thy promise unto us is given

Of peace on earth as well as heaven.

Oh, hear our prayers, nor turn away,

Let peace and right now come to stay,

Let wickedness and evil cease,

Send, Father, to thy children peace.

Laura Moencii Jenkins

plain city, utah