--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Alter, J. Cecil collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 23 number: 3 published: 1920-01 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Alter, J. Cecil, "Four Mud Walls and Safety," *Improvement Era* 23, no. 3 (January 1920): 214–215.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2303unse 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: improvementera2303unse start_page: 214 end_page: 215 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1920-01) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2303unse publication_year: 1920 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 1920, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Four Mud Walls and Safety — ; ! — 216 IMPROVEMENT ERA amounted to $3,706, the record shows, as the cost of the fort, which was completed in eighteen days, ready for a celebration or the 24th of July, 1865. The Bastion at the southwest cor- ner; the man is S. W. Western, one of the Pioneers of Deseret. r Via Cruris' I stood by his casket the mystery of death ; Wreathed his broad brow like a diadem He died for the Truth; his last anguished breath Was a witness to thoee who crushed him with scorn Who spat their contumely and crowned him with Thorn ; As their fathers had crowned the meek crucified One But the martyr's soul burns with a high, holy flame, And the Cross can not daunt him whose lofty desire Is to serve his glorified Redeemer; And though the dark path leads to Calvary's hill, The glory of God doth shine 'round him still. Maud Baggarley I'llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllMIIIII IIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIJ A. D. 1920 Once again we greet the advent of a New Year. What | | will it bring? There is a correlation between the lives 1 | of individuals and the events of the race, as there is be- 1 tween the events of the Nations and Nature. The indi- | | vidual, the race, the nations, nature itself, each and all 1 | are subject to periods of calm development, of repose or 1 of convulsive progress change. That change may in- — 1 | volve the swift destruction of that which is Old, or it | | may bring a sudden development of that which is to be 1 the dominant New. We may anticipate, unless all signs 1 fail, that this year, 1920, will be a period of time fraught with events of a vast importance to ourselves, the living, I and to the coming, the yet unborn inheritors of the ulti- | | mate destinies of the human race. It is but commonplace, it is but platitude, to reit- | | erate the thought which is voiced on every hand. Hope, | | fear, consternation, surprise, dread, hope again, have | swayed this hour in the hearts of the children of men. | With the existant wild and deep unrest, the longing for | truth, the mingled sweet and bitter in the cup of life, | 1 the new ideals, the determinations, the sword of prog- § ress and the torch of destruction, with heroism and in- | justice, well may the mind be troubled, great questions | 1 be asked in the souls of men! | May we not, this dawn of a new period of time, look | into each other's eyes and say, "Be of Good Cheer"? | 1 It was ever thus. Out of the seeming chaos of wars, | 1 even from the Dark Ages, issued reigns of higher Law | | and Order. Can we not see a brighter light? Can we | not learn that though the tempests and convulsions of | | events stir the soul of man it cannot be enslaved —that 1 it will accomplish itself? Let Hope and High Purpose | be our watchwords of A. D. 1920. Hail, then, with all thy 1 possibilities, Fragment of Inscrutable Time! Alfred Lambourne. § Tmiiiiiimimiii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiniimiiiiiiiiii nun iiiiiiiiiiiiiiinii in in mini iiiimiiimiiiiiiiiiimiiimim..*