--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Biddulph, Samuel collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 20 number: 7 published: 1917-05 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Samuel Biddulph, "Give Us Strength to Do the Right," *Improvement Era* 20, no. 7 (May 1917): 638.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2007unse 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: improvementera2007unse start_page: 638 end_page: 638 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1917-05) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2007unse 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. --- # 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.