---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Stephens, Evan
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: "Stephens, Evan, “Testimony,” *Improvement Era* 29, no. 3 (January 1926): 238–239."
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: 238
end_page: 239
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.
---

# Testimony

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TESTIMONY 239 chil-dren of the prom - ise, with a tes - ti - mo - ny, have been seen of mor - tals, :%?- 0_ •I £— 1-# h —* # ' Are your lamps burn - ing with Giv'n through the Spir - it to Heard were their voic - es as - 1 — i — — — i— -I y y- -fc— -J \ h 1 ~N- i — h- =?- -«— 2 — * — fTm* -H 1- radiance ev - er new? Bnrn-ing un-wav'ring Thro' the darkness lighten up the soul, Hold high your bea-con, Let it bright be in the old-en days; Set up His king-dom, Great and all im- W9h r+- ■*- ■*■ $r f—\r~ c=c— =pr=g^ C u 1 ^ Lp h — y z/ i > o _ a > p. A H*5- s — F* — g* • 0 ^ ^ — F-\ m H- 0 2 V-0 1 * — # 1 — 0 — |- 0 »- show-ing burn-ing, mor - tal, -£-<■- Je - sus the Sa-vior, and God the Fa - ther true. Guiding the straying to the ce - les - tial goal. Nev - pr to per - ish or dim its glor - ious rays. A A -I — ^r I k h 1 h h Ly I* y b e1— JJ Bits of Philosophy Incitement is better than excitement. You will never be good as long as you think you are good. Anyhow, it is better to cry about spilt milk than to growl about it. The substitution of "we" for "I" is the beginning of culture. Three things are above the price of rubies: a clean body, a pure heart, and a clear brain. If you fear what people will say about what you say, you are apt not to say anything worth saying. Nephi Jensen