Give Us Strength to Do the Right

638 IMPROVEMENT ERA Save your breadstuff's, wheat, potatoes, and all food products. Save the potato peelings for the chickens and the pigs. Let ua economize and save wherever we can. Let us try to make our- selves feel poor for six months, and we will all be benefited through it and by it. God bless you. Amen. Give Us Strength to Do the Right [The morning after the United States Senate voted to enter the World War, now raging, the press dispatches contained this announcement: "Dur- ing the closing of the debate, just before the vote was taken, Senator Reed Smoot, of Utah, bowed his head and led the assembled senators in prayer to God, for divine wisdom and strength to do the right." As a citizen of the senator's home town I have taken the liberty to express this thought (which seems to be the thought of the American people) in the lines following. — The Author.] Father of millions, in whose hand The destinies of nations lie: From out this awful tumult, bring A freedom that can never die! Help us, O Lord, to do the right, And trust in thee for wisdom's light. And when the awful thunders roll, And strong hearts faint on land and sea, Direct the spending of our strength To set the long-bound millions free! O may we ever do the right And trust in thee for wisdom's light. We care not for the battle's spoil; We want no part of any land; Our only object is to give The world's oppressed a helping hand! O help us now to do the right And trust in thee for wisdom's light. Then may the brave of every land Unite in freedom's grand array; Deprive all tyrants of their power, And hasten on a brighter day! O give us strength to do the right And trust in thee for wisdom's light! Provo, Utah Samuel Biddulph.