---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Temple House, Roy
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 21
number: 8
published: 1918-06
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Temple House, Roy, ""I Stepped in Your Steps All the Way"," *Improvement Era* 21, no. 8 (June 1918): 672.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2108unse
  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: improvementera2108unse
start_page: 672
end_page: 672
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1918-06)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2108unse
  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.
---

# “I Stepped in Your Steps All the Way”

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672                       IMPROVEMENT ERA

     The doctrine of escape in the modern world is a fallacy
from which it is reaping evil consequences. Evils have been
growing to enormous proportions. Men profess to believe that
they may be put at a safe distance by education and by the socalled higher civilization of man.   An ever present consciousness of dangers, mental, physical and spiritual, is a helpful
means of overcoming them. It is better to resist at close range
the evils which threaten us than to imagine that there is a safe
distance at which they will not be less painful.
      The theory of a safe distance is equally true in the physical world. Men trust to time and lose the benefits of the old
adage that an "ounce of prevention is better than a pound of
cure." Time is not always a remedy for threatened dangers.
Dangers often take on violence as they travel through time and
space.    It is safer to resist   them at the beginning, and place of
origin.    Many troubles can be better averted than resisted.

          "I Stepped in      Your Steps all the Way'
                                  (Selected)

              A father and his tiny son
                Crossed a rough street, one stormy day.
              "See, Papa," cried the little one,
                "I stepped in your steps all the way!"

              Ah, random, childish hands, that deal
                 Quick thrusts no coat of proof could stay!
              It touched him with the touch of steel
                 "I stepped in your steps all the way!"

              If this man shirks his manhood's due,
                 And heeds what lying voices say,
              It is not one who falls, but two
                "I stepped in your steps all the way!"

              But they who thrust off greed and fear,
                Who love and watch, who toil and pray
              How their hearts carol when they hear:
                "I stepped in your steps all the way!"
                                                  Roy Temple House.