---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Parry, Edwin F.
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 28
number: 10
published: 1925-08
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: "Edwin F. Parry, “A Land Choice above All Other Lands (America),” *Improvement Era 28, no. 10 (August 1925)*: 972–975."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera28010unse
  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: improvementera28010unse
start_page: 972
end_page: 975
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1925-08)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera28010unse
  publication_year: 1925
  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 1925, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# A Land Choice above All Other Lands (America)

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A LAND CHOICE ABOVE ALL OTHER LANDS Bit. feip-[Hinj^^ 975 D.S. __L I saith the Lord, •HI saith the Lord. ^^S^^^-M34^f^i COZM. (After D.S.) Sop. and Alto. -I r- A [Til I l-rr-T— f- 1 1 ^—5 l-r — I- ± __i L h 1 — i — |_l 1 1 — LI t±_f — I — 0± — 0 € » — I — ,$!_; -0- -0-. -0-0-0- -0- -0- ff For this shall be a land of Sz*-d- *. ?Z2 £ i Tenor and Bass. lib-er-ty, a land of lib - er - ty for - ev er. Inst. *£ !ilt*fc =9ffif _=^ fi- fe [S=*=C Lo *H«H& f^SS a -+-f-#-<&- a- The Way You View It It isn't so much the thing you do As it is the way you do it: Life isn't so good or bad to you, But it's more in the way you view it. For he who can sing and smile on his way Is the one who can really make life pay. It isn't the other fellow's fault If you haven't a single friend; If you carefully look, you'll find it's you, And your friendship you must mend. For the one who can always be cheerful and gay Is the one who can really make friendships pay. Life's pathway is strewn with roses and thorns. With sunshine and shadow, too, With laughter and tears, with smile or frown, They are all waiting choice from you. And he who can choose the best every day Is the one who can really make life pay. Mesa, Arizona. MRS. IDA R. ALLDREDGE.