--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - George H. Brimhall collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 21 number: 5 published: 1918-03 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: "George H. Brimhall, “The Grace of Power to Give,” *Improvement Era* 21, no. 5 (March 1918): 406." source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2105unse 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: improvementera2105unse start_page: 406 end_page: 406 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1918-03) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2105unse 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 Grace of Power to Give The Grace of Power to Give Now, while we stand on Freedom's soil, Inhaling Freedom's air, Be this the burden of our song, Our morn and evening prayer: 0 gracious Giver of our land, May we who in it live Be grateful now for this best gift, The Grace of Power to Give. Great time, great place, great circumstance, To open wide the heart, To grow like Him who gave his all, By giving now our part. To fast betimes, with bread at hand, And feed the hungry throng, Of fragments make a plenitude, In sacrifice be strong. George H. Brimhall.