---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Crammond Kennedy
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 21
number: 4
published: 1918-02
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: "Crammond Kennedy, “The Nation's Prayer,” *Improvement Era* 21, no. 4 (February 1918): 287."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2104unse
  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: improvementera2104unse
start_page: 287
end_page: 287
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1918-02)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2104unse
  publication_year: 1918
  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 1918, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# The Nation's Prayer

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The Nation's Prayer

"Before thy Throne we bow: our God, our shield be thou

From Treason's rage!

In faith we look to Thee, our strength in heav'n we see,

Defender of the free,

In ev'ry age.

"Our follies we confess: 0 God, forgive and bless!

Let Mercy's light

Illumine this dark hour when war clouds o'er us lower,

And thine eternal power

Defend the right!"

Crammond Kennedy.