---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Coleman, Guy C.
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 20
number: 6
published: 1917-04
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Guy C. Coleman, "My Faith: A Poem," *Improvement Era* 20, no. 6 (April 1917): 504.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2006unse
  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: improvementera2006unse
start_page: 504
end_page: 504
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1917-04)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2006unse
  publication_year: 1917
  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 1917, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# My Faith: A Poem

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                       Japanese              New Year
                                  By C. Ralph Amott

    On the 25th of December last, Santa Claus came to a large
number    of our little Oriental companions residing near the
Church in Osaka. To many of them this was his first appearance, and the happy hearts and bright smiles he left behind him
will surely be enough to gladden and warm the heart of the old
gentleman throughout the coming year.
     We entertained the parents and friends of our Sunday school
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clusively by the students themselves. They all had worked
splendidly in preparation, and carried off their parts with an
earnestness and vim that well repaid their every effort expended
in teaching them.
     Our only trouble was that the house was too small to accommodate all that came. One hundred and forty were admitted, but we were forced to deny admittance to a large number
who came later. Santa Claus, as a yearly visitor, is as yet not
generally known among our little friends here, but with the