--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Kooyman, Frank I. collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 24 number: 11 published: 1921-09 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Frank I. Kooyman, "Shall We Know Our Own Once More?," *Improvement Era* 24, no. 11 (September 1921): 1012.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera24011unse 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: improvementera24011unse start_page: 1012 end_page: 1012 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1921-09) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera24011unse publication_year: 1921 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 1921, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Shall We Know Our Own Once More? 1012 IMPROVEMENT ERA ing dens, a strange contrast. Yet seeming to dwell and flour- ish, in spite of the antagonistic influence of each to the other; truly a city cosmopolitan, where all nations, all walks of life and the great inventions of modern civiliation mix unintelligibly, until one is confused by the ever changing, from present to dim past that greets the eye. No greater place on earth can be found for the study of mankind, in their individual and collective efforts for good and evil, for progress or decay than in this the melting pot of the Orient, a sink of iniquity, headquarters of the Y. M. C. A. and the Christian Missions. Shall We Know Our Own Once More? When the Angels' welcome's given, When we enter holier sphere, And in that sweet joy of heaven We forget our troubles here, Shall we meet, there, father, mother, Friends and loved ones gone before? Snail we recognize each other? Shall we know our own once more? When our friends, who traveling faster, Long since crossed the great divide, Who with us did serve the Master, Meet us on the other side, Shall we read in their sweet faces Love and friendship as of yore? Shall we feel their fond embraces? Shall we know our own once more? Oh my soul, let naught confuse thee! How much sorrow life may bring, Let this glorious hope enthuse thee, Cause thee to rejoice and sing: All in which our faith's delighting Will come true on yonder shore: There will be a reuniting, We shall know our own once more ! Come, ye sad and heavy-hearted, Yonder beckons brighter day! There you'll find your dear departed, Sainted loved ones, yours for aye. Death and parting here bereave us — There reunion will restore All we've lost, no more to leave us: Wle shall know our own once more! Translated from the Dutch, by Frank I. Kooyman.