--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Alder, Lydia D. collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 25 number: 2 published: 1921-12 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Lydia D. Alder, "Time’s Goal," *Improvement Era* 25, no. 2 (December 1921): 95.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2502unse 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: improvementera2502unse start_page: 95 end_page: 95 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1921-12) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2502unse 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. --- # Time’s Goal Time's Goal We think of Bethlehem, its plains we see, And glorious star, the orb of Destiny ; See it illume the darkness of the night That lies 'twixt us and where the path is bright; And we can hear the heavenly lullaby, That seems to sweep adown the arch of sky ; Then many voices singing, "Peace on Earth," Announce to all the world the Christ Child's birth. Now we can understand the melody ; Not then peace to come, but in time to be; And now we know a night must surely come, A chasm crossed before the height is won — And all the world be troubled near and far, Until appears again the Morning Star. Time, speeding on, will near its goal be, when World epochs are in line, — Christ comes again. Lydia D. Alder