--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Woodruff, Lloyd collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 23 number: 9 published: 1920-07 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Woodruff, Lloyd, "Victory," *Improvement Era* 23, no. 9 (July 1920): 786.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2309unse 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: improvementera2309unse start_page: 786 end_page: 786 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1920-07) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2309unse 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. --- # Victory 786 IMPROVEMENT EH \ the Roman Catholics of the world today, and what the Sorbonne was in the Middle Ages. Side by side, in friendly competition with the state schools, the Church schools should do their work, seeking ever to be in the lead in the search for truth and in the training of leaders. The state must ever care for the mass, but the Church must go further and develop the exceptional in- dividual, the man in whom slumbers the energy which is to kindle thousands. Logan, Utah Victory God gave us victory! We bless the day. But what is victory? Brothers, pause and pray That this which in our lap is flung May be no albatross around us hung. God gave us victory! But do we lust To prostitute, debauch, Trailing in the dust This high reward, ennobling power? Aye, tremble lest we smirch the luminous hour. God gave us victory, And victory knows Nothing of greed or hate, Murderous strife or blows: In her fair train, Justice and Right Have barred the gates 'gainst Selfishness and Might. God gave us victory! Ours is the trust, And unto all mankind, Brothers, be ye just. Let naught of self intrude or mar; Our mercy and our help, come, shower afar. God gave us victory! He armed the right, That gray and murky gloom, Dappling into light, Should flood with glory all the earth And to a new-found brotherhood give birth. God gave us victory! With duty plain, Let not our petty strifes Make sacrifices vain; But open wide the doors to Hope and Peace, A haven where earth's weary find surcease. Lloyd Woodruff.