---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - W. D. Nesbit
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 17
number: 9
published: 1914-07
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'W. D. Nesbit, "Our Flag," *Improvement Era* 17, no. 9 (July 1914): 841.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1709unse
  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: improvementera1709unse
start_page: 841
end_page: 841
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1914-07)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1709unse
  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.
---

# Our Flag

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WORSHIP                                      841

sun, the moon, the stars, the idols and even men was not the true

worship. The manifestation of God's power was so established

everywhere in nature that the inspiration of it all was a message

of peace.  His worship was to God, the Creator of the sun, the

moon, the    stars   and men.     Then he, God, in whose image we

are created, gave life to all his creations, and the law by which all

these creations exist is understood and governed by the God we

should worship.

We, being the manifestations of his power, governed by his

law, in whose image we are formed, should develop within our-

selves this instinct of worship to the extent that reverence and

truth should fill our beings, so that in going to him for aid, we may

do so with an assurance satisfying and soul-inspiring.

LOGAN, UTAH

Our Flag

[By an effective reading of the following lines, on April 20, last,

Mr.  Thomas L. Reilly, of Connecticut, fired the patriotism of his as-

sociates in the House of Representatives, at Washington, D. C]

Your flag and our flag,

And how it floats today

O'er your land and my land,

And half the world away.

Blood-red and rose-red,

Its stripes forever gleam

Snow white and soul white,

The good forefathers' dream.

Sky blue and true blue,

With stars that beam aright;

A gloried guidon of the day,

A shelter through the night.

Your flag and my flag—

Oh, how much it holds

Your heart and my heart

Secure within its folds

Your heart and my heart

Beat quicker at the sight;

Sun kissed and wind tossed,

The red and blue and white.

The one flag! the great flag!

The flag for me and you

Glorified, all else beside,

The red and white and blue.

W.   D.   NESBIT