--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Townsend, Joseph Longking collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 25 number: 4 published: 1922-02 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Joseph Longking Townsend, "The Home of Israel," *Improvement Era* 25, no. 4 (February 1922): 294.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2504unse 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: improvementera2504unse start_page: 294 end_page: 294 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1922-02) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2504unse publication_year: 1922 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 1922, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # The Home of Israel The Home of Israel Come out from the nations, O Israel, Why longer in jeapordy roam? The Lord through his prophets is calling, His Spirit is calling thee home! The land that belonged to thy fathers, The home once so sacred, is thine; Prepare for an exodus thither To the land of the palm and the vine; Fly home where thy heritage calls thee, Fly home to thy loved Palestine! As out of the nations He calls thee, Obeying His counsel and will, The promise to Abraham given The Lord will in justice fulfil. Jerusalem, rising in grandeur, Shall be the great center of light, To shine o'er the world in its glory Of liberty, justice and right; Where Peace shall extol her great blessings. And War shall no longer affright. Awake from thy slumber, 0 Israel, Thy destiny, long since forecast, Declares, in prophetical vision, Deliverance for thee at last. The land that belonged to thy fathers, The home once so sacred, is thine; Prepare for an exodus tither To the land of the palm and the vine; Fly home where thy country awaits thee, Fly home to thy loved Palestine! Albuquerque, N. M. Joseph Longking Townsend