---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Aretta Young
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 18
number: 4
published: 1915-02
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Aretta Young, "Nineteen Fifteen," *Improvement Era* 18, no. 4 (February 1915): 356.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1804unse
  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: improvementera1804unse
start_page: 356
end_page: 356
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1915-02)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1804unse
  publication_year: 1915
  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 1915, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Nineteen Fifteen

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Time's holy gift
                                               Again, New Year!
                                             The bells of ages
                                                Ring for cheer.

                                   —
          The Old Year didsl thou see him go
          With king-like tread, with crown of snow?
                           Still   true of heart,
                              He called farewell
                           His voice was lost
                              By that great bell
          Whose echo from the sky was hurled,
          To thrill the great, expectant world.

           O Father — God — hear thou the prayer
               •
                   Of hearts that break    —
                                    great earth-wide wail;
             Let not thy benediction fail
           For those bowed low in dire despair;
             For those who this dread day must live
            To die, or life for sacrifice to give;
          To die, lest honor shall be stained
          To die that faith shall be maintained
          To give the lives whose sacred worth
           Is      not elsewhere in all the earth!
Provo, 1914.                                          ARETTA YOUNG.