---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Guy Coleman
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 18
number: 5
published: 1915-03
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Guy Coleman, "The Toiler," *Improvement Era* 18, no. 5 (March 1915): 401.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1805unse
  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: improvementera1805unse
start_page: 401
end_page: 401
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1915-03)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1805unse
  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.
---

# The Toiler

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THE BROWN SOUTH PACIFIC ISLANDER                           401

    In conclusion, let us call to the fore once again the part played
by Alma in all this. Hundreds of years before the existence of
such maritime knowledge, as is now in our possession, he refers
to two vessels having been lost in those waters (where the bottle
began its journey two thousand years later). What is more
natural than to draw the fair conclusion that very easily a small,
clumsily constructed craft, devoid of other propellling power than
wind or wave, could easily have become dismantled in a squall,
and, drifting sailless and rudderless, where would she have been
heard from next ?     Anyone will logically exclaim   :     "The bottle
and boat traversed identically the same course."
     To lengthen this particular part of our discussion would fail
to add to its impressiveness, and we shall reserve for the succeed-
ing article of conclusion the remaining array of facts that establish
from various standpoints the identity of our brown brother of
the South Seas, simply suggesting that from Alma 63 :5-8 may be
evolved a very consistent and logical reason for holding to the
Israelitish origin of the brown islander, as we do.
RIVERSIDE, UTAH

                            The Toiler

           O toiler, weary of your task,
               With head bowed low;
            O breaking heart, and weary soul;
             O son of woe,
            Work on, and bear your load.
               Those idle few
           Who wallow in their gold
               Are less than you.

            Although your health may       fail,

               Your soul is white.
            Their souls will rust in them;
               They are as night.
            "Allye who are weary and heavy         laden,
             Come unto me,
           And I will give you rest,"
               Christ calls to thee.
                                                   Guy Coleman
midway, utah