---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Alfred Lambourne
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: 'Alfred Lambourne, "When Shall War Cease?," *Improvement Era* 18, no. 4 (February 1915): 283–284.'
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: 283
end_page: 284
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.
---

# When Shall War Cease?

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"-saw^HF" "
              ^^^

WHEN SHALL WAR CEASE?
  Lo, countless prayers are sent unto the skies.

  And wives and mothers shed their bitter tears.
  And famine stills the orphan's hunger cries;
  The hearts of age are broken in their fears;
  On field and meadow lie the thousands slain.
  And ancient cities pass awiy in flames,
  And need and beauty make their pleas in vain.
  For man's wild passion Christ's sweet message shames-
  Yea, in mad hatred millions draw their breath,
  The dead, unburied, float on mere and flood,
  And on the deep, men sink in ghastly death.
  And love is lost amid the seas of bbod:
  When comes Thy reign, O Christ; when will War cea e?c

  Yet dark the Night, when comes the dawn of Peace!

                                 ALFRED LAMBOURNE

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PRESIDENT JEDEDIATT M. GRANT
Born,   Windsor, Broome County, New York, February       21,   1816   -
                                                                          died
               December 1, 1856, Salt Lake City, Utah.