--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Bingham, Lewis 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: 'Lewis Bingham, "Zion, What a Happy Lot Is Thine," *Improvement Era* 20, no. 7 (May 1917): 612.' 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: 612 end_page: 612 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. --- # Zion, What a Happy Lot Is Thine 612 IMPROVEMENT ERA consigned to the keeping of weak man, and as the novice in art gazes upon the masterpiece, even so man knows it to be very beautiful, yet knows not all its beauty, for the mind of man cannot now fully comprehend all the works of God. This much they know of a surety. He who gave it said: "Proclaim it to the world; it is the renewal and fulfilment of ancient promises. Cry repentance — obedience! and to those who acknowledge God by his appointed sign, in faith believing, shall come the ministry of the Spirit, which 'shall lead them into all truth' and show them the hidden things. Then shall we enter into the kingdom of God, then may we become perfect, 'even as our Father in heaven is perfect.' " I'ocatello, Idaho Zion, what a Happy Lot is Thine Land of God's temples grand, Where Saints from ev'ry land Walk in the path He planned Happy and free; While peace and plenty reign Throughout each vale and plain, There is no thankful strain Too sweet for thee. Chorus Zion, what a happy lot is thine ! Shielded by High Providence from ill, While God's chosen ones His plans fulfil. Zion, what a ahppy lot is thine. In thy domains so fair, Flow'rs grow beneath God's care, While His pure beams they share, — Blooming the best. Light of the world, 0 shine With radiance divine, Thy gladsome boon define To all the rest. Mesa, Arizona Lewis Bingham.