--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Lula Greene Richards 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: "Lula Greene Richards, “Our Boys,” *Improvement Era* 21, no. 6 (April 1918): 525." 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: 525 end_page: 525 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. --- # Our Boys Our Boys In loyalty and honor, for justice, truth and right, Our boys— our soldier heroes— have joined the world's great fight! Father who art in heaven, 'tis in thy cause they stand; Be with them, and protect them by thine almighty hand. Lead them to shun temptation, and keep themselves from sin; Then, guided by thy Spirit, the conquest they must win! Help them to strike the fetters of tyranny away, That with the world's broad freedom may come the brighter dpy. And we at home remaining, who may not join the fray, Must be alert and earnest: must work, and watch, and pray. With love and faith unyielding, with all our minds and might, We'll help our hero soldiers to nobly win the fight! hula Greene Kicnaras.