--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Norman, George Henry collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 25 number: 1 published: 1921-11 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'George Henry Norman, "The Reward, Though Unseen, Is Sure," *Improvement Era* 25, no. 1 (November 1921): 66–67.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2501unse 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: improvementera2501unse start_page: 66 end_page: 67 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1921-11) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2501unse 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. --- # The Reward, Though Unseen, Is Sure . THE REWARD IS SURE 67 Elder Norton : "You say you have put a lot into the Church and got so little out of it? Well, it is on this point that you have made a great mistake, like many others who have been placed in the same position as yourself. To work for reward is a good principle in this life; it is an incentive to do those things that in ordinary circumstances would be burdensome. But the re- ward which we receive at the hands of men is only superficial; only lasts for a certain time. In this life, men receive their good things, and 'they preach for hire, divine for money, and judge for reward,' and they stand at the street-corners to be seen of men. Verily, they have their reward. The path of duty is the path of safety, but sometimes the path is very hard and irksome. We are surrounded by a 'cloud of witnesses' who take not of our labor of love." "Yes," said Sister Garratt; "I quite agree with what you have said, but I seem not to have got much out of my efforts, and sometimes, going through the same routine every Sunday appears to me a mockery." Elder Norton : "You say you seem to have got nothing out of your efforts? Most probably this may be true regarding your- self, but have you considered your students? Have they re- ceived nothing by your efforts? Is it not possible that your presence is an inspiration to them to do right? They are bap- tized members of the Church, and children of our heavenly Father, and it is possible that there may be a future leader of the Church in your class. Also your regularity in attending to your duties as a teacher has given them confidence in your teachings, and as they grow older that confidence will become stronger until it grows and develops into a strong testimony of the Gos- pel of Christ and to those principles which they were taught in the Sabbath School class. "The rewards of men are seen, but the reward that comes from God is sometimes unseen to us, here in the flesh. We have to run the race with patience. The race is not to the swift but to those who endure to the end. Here is the patience of the Saints made manifest. We should not get impatient if we do not see the immediate fruits of our efforts, for Paul may plant, Appollos may water, but it is God that gives the increase. And now, Sister Garratt, take my advice; keep to your Sabbath School class, and teach the children the plain truths of the Gos- pel of Jesus Christ, and in future years they will rise up and call you blessed. And if you are faithful, your reward will be given you at the great assize: 'Well done, thou good and faith- ful servant * * * enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.' " Hull, Englan