---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 26
number: 2
published: 1922-12
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "For Christmas Morn 1922", *Improvement Era* 26, no. 2 (December 1922): 95.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2602unse
  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: improvementera2602unse
start_page: 95
end_page: 95
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1922-12)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2602unse
  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.
---

# For Christmas Morn 1922

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Jf or Cfjrisftmas; Jfflorn 1922 Swift pass the years, again it is the morn That speaks of Him and of His gentle life; Ten centuries and nine since He was born, The Prince of Peace who came to conquer strife. Yea, now the anthem rises in His praise, The holly wreath hangs in the church and home, Yea, the child Jesus, star to Herod's days, From Bethlehem hath vanquished pagan Rome. Yet war on war sweeps on from land to land, Christ's reign of love upon the sword yet waits ; 'Twixt Hope and Fear the nations anxious stand, From Russian snows to Smyrna's broken gates ; 0, while men's passions, sea-like, rage and toss, Be not in vain His anguish on the Cross! Alfred Lambourne