--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Hodapp, Minnie Iverson collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 21 number: 1 published: 1917-11 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Minnie Iverson Hodapp, "Consolation," *Improvement Era* 21, no. 1 (November 1917): 34.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2101unse 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: improvementera2101unse start_page: 34 end_page: 34 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1917-11) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2101unse 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. --- # Consolation — 34 IMPROVEMENT ERA the wives, the sisters, who buckle on their armor and send them forth. Winning for their country a world-renown, and for op- pressed humanity a larger liberty, we feel that they will realize, in some degree, the American ideal of world-peace. Isaiah's prophetic vision of a realm in which violence shall no more be heard, nor wasting and destruction within its borders; wherein the high tides of passion shall never beat, the storms of anger shall forget to rage, and the tempests caused by human injustice shall cease forevermore; a land whose sun of liberty shall no more go down, nor the moon of beauty withdraw itself; whose God shall be unto it an everlasting light, and the days of its — mourning be ended this, I believe is the true American ideal, the ultimate aim of all just government. Consolation The same dear sun, the same blue sky, The same blithe birds that sing on high, The same sweet glow and rosy beam, The same pure streams that glide and gleam, Yet, from my heart comes pensive sigh "Ah, not the same glad, fearless I!" For yesterday my joy was free As any bird upon the tree, And Peace no tempter could assail Did through my every hour prevail, Till Sorrow came with cruel dart And robbed the song and left the smart. How soon till anguish fall asleep? My simple heart doth weep and weep! The same bright sun, the same fair sky, The same dear love that smiles on high! And O, 'tis merciful, benign! So gentle, gracious and divine, I know 'twill soothe each grieving pain And make me strong and glad again! For I have heard the holy call Most pure and beautiful of all! A mild, imploring spirit-voice That bade my weeping heart rejoice! And I can trust His loving care, Who came our every grief to share. O may I hearken, undismayed, "Lo, it is I, be not afraid." Minnie Iverson Hodapp.