--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Smart, Joseph H. collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 23 number: 7 published: 1920-05 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Smart, Joseph H., "Purity," *Improvement Era* 23, no. 7 (May 1920): 597.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2307unse 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: improvementera2307unse start_page: 597 end_page: 597 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1920-05) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2307unse 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. --- # Purity Purity The things divine in nature are the things of purity:— The broad and wind-swept prairie, stretching onward endlessly; radiant glow, The white light of the summer sun, or moon-beam s and driven snow; The cold, blue heights of lofty peaks, or the white The placid bosom of a lake in calm serenity, The charging, foaming river, rushing on eternally; purple dawn, The spicy breath of Autumn, with a glorious heaven s dew at morn. And the rich, brown earth in spring time, with Roosevelt, Utah Josepfe R Sman