--- 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: 29 number: 3 published: 1926-01 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: "Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Sunday School Song-Writing Contest,” *Improvement Era* 29, no. 3 (January 1926): 263." source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2903unse 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: improvementera2903unse start_page: 263 end_page: 263 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1926-01) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2903unse publication_year: 1926 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 1926, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Sunday School Song-Writing Contest SUNDAY SCHOOL SONG-WRITING CONTEST With a desire to secure suitable new songs for use in the Sunday Schools the General Board of the Deseret Sunday School Union an- nounces the following contest: Writers are invited to submit original, heretofore unpublished poems, not to exceed four verses, on any of the following subjects: 1. Sacrament. 2. Book of Mormon. 3. Word of Wisdom. 4. Tithing. 5. Mother's Day. 6. Promotion (ideal involved in) . 7. Closing Hymns. 8. Pioneers. 9. Missionary or Enlistment Hymns. 10. Songs Adapted to Meetings of Teachers. (Union.) 11. Hymns of Praise. 12. Hymns on Virtues (love, forgiveness, etc.). For the poem, on each of these subjects, deemed by the judges to be best suited to the purpose, the General Board will award a prize of $10, making twelve prizes. The winning poems will be published later, and prizes will be offered for appropriate musical settings. Songs suitable for the Kindergarten and Primary departments will be welcome. Poems on the Sacrament must be in the office of the General Board of the Deseret Sunday School Union. 47 East South Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah, on or before February 1, 1926. The contest closes April 1, 1926. Poems which have already been published will be barred from the contest. The Board reserves the right to reject any or all poems submitted. Manusripts accepted become the property of the Deseret Sunday School Union, together with the right to copyright and publish. Manuscripts should be signed with a nom de plume only, the name of the writer to be enclosed in a sealed envelope, on the outside of which should be written his nom de plume. Obstruction What seems like a wall is a ladder: The first step is under your eye: What if you don't see it. keep stepping: It's stepping that finds it. step high. San Diego, California. SATELLA JAQUES PENMAN.