--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Frank I. Kooyman collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 21 number: 6 published: 1918-04 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: "Frank I. Kooyman, “Invocation,” *Improvement Era* 21, no. 6 (April 1918): 503–504." source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2106unse 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: improvementera2106unse start_page: 503 end_page: 504 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1918-04) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2106unse 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. --- # Invocation Invocation Father of all spirits! Make us strong To bear the Gospel light To every nation, people, tongue — The world-field, harvest-white. The healing rays for those by brutal wrong Left in the darkest plight, Are ours to spread — an apostolic throng, Dawn-heralds in their might. Lord of the harvest! Thine the guidance be, Though ours the hand to wield The reaping sickle on the ripened field. Men's systems failed — pseudo-Christianity — Thy glorious truth must come within their ken. We see our task. Thv will be done. Amen! Frank I. Kooyman. 'El Morah" — meaning "The Castle" in Spanish. It is generally known as "Inscription Rock."