--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Hodapp, Minnie Iverson collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 23 number: 1 published: 1919-11 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Hodapp, Minnie Iverson, "Forgive," *Improvement Era* 23, no. 1 (November 1919): 15–16.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2301unse 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: improvementera2301unse start_page: 15 end_page: 16 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1919-11) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2301unse publication_year: 1919 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 1919, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Forgive Forgive An angel-token blessed my way, A guiding light to give; In pleading tones I heard it say, "0 wounded one, forgive!" I listened, and it came again, So pure, so gently clear, My heart was softened to its strain And quickened to a tear. I left the dull and sullen gloom, To bow in humble prayer, And rising, saw the vale abloom With flowers everywhere angel-love, thy voice I know, My heart, how free, how light, Sweet help, that lifted all my woe And made the world so bright! —Minnie Iverson Hodapp. |IHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIimilllllllllllllllllll II IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIfllllllllllMIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIICIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIK^