--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Unknown collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 29 number: 9 published: 1926-07 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: "Unknown, “M. I. A., We Hail Thee,” *Improvement Era* 29, no. 9 (July 1926): 855–856." source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2909unse 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: improvementera2909unse start_page: 855 end_page: 856 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1926-07) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2909unse 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. --- # M. I. A., We Hail Thee M. I. A., WE HAIL THEE Euth May Fox. EEfi :£ :q-r -m — -i — L# W. 0. Robinson. Jv fe * _> -nr --&-- 1. M. I. A., we hail thee! Loud thy praise we sing, for thy lov - ing 2. Flower of the des-ert, Fragrant is thy bloom, Blest with God's own ZL^A f — f — * — * — * — P— r^ — f — f — f — *- F* V v b — S3 # — 0 -*- -3- 72 — a guidance, We our homage bring; Found-ed by a proph-et sunshine, Radiant as the noon; 'Neath thy heav'n wrought banner tef: — » 0 0 W I 0 1 — h. h n b r ' ^ i/ i/ |/ (N___J_r_ r-» — '— i P 1 r^ ^ '--1 -n L_y » * * 1_# # 4 # — * — ^ IJ -# 0 0 #^ «— y — v m -m m •- — • — ■&- On the rock of truth, May thy light and glo-ry Di - a - dem our youth. March the brave and free, For thy righteous standards, Hail, all hail to thee! r. s s a—* & — r~m— ?- -tte- 1- -v — v- -v—&- CHOBUS. Ev - On, -HZ . -0 -H — F-! -*— 0 — 0 -zt er, ev-er :jv ^ — » — » — , — i on - -ward, God shall light thy on, ev-er on-ward, God m £=#=•=£ f=* 3= :£: Onward, press on, on, on-ward, God lierht thy way, 856 IMPROVEMENT ERA r ■j 5 i way, light thy way, Glor ious is thy shall light thy way, yes, Glorious thy name, fCE* 3 ± thy — 1=: prom - - - Glor - ious thy ♦ h ft way, yes, Glorious thy name and -— ^=^ — F* — *-•— *-—r^-t-^ — r— & — . i ise, prom - ise, Be - lov - ed M. I. A., (M. A.) prom -ise, m -*'-.- -#•- b=F I A Four-Minute Address* By President Emeritus George H. Brimhall, Brigham Young University Why the "Mormon" Church? That's the question. First: From an intellectual point of view. 1 am now talking to those who are skeptical about God, but who believe in religion as a social institution, a system, man-made, a machine for making men happy. To such the "Mormon" Church is entitled to preference. 1. Because of the onward call of its theology. 2. Because of the superiority of its organization. 3. Because of the uplift of its activities. Second: From a spiritual point of view. Those who believe in God believe that he has had a plan, believe that he has revealed that plan to men and made them prophets, made them men who could see history in advance. To that class this Church is entitled to choice consideration because, 1. It came into existence in fulfilment of divine promise. 2. It has fulfilled prophecy in its history. 3. It is now fulfilling prophecy. Third: From an experience point of view, the point of view of thousands who have lived and died in the Church, and of thousands who are now living: the point of view of most of you and many, many others. My experience, the experience of multitudes gives answer to the question : Why the "Mormon" Church? 1. Because the wider the wanderings from the Church line of life the weakifr I become. 2. The closer I cling to the Church the stronger I grow. 3. The harder I work in the Church the happier I am. i I turn this great theme, this vital problem over to your theological teachers who have been studying, teaching, and living to the end that you might have an intellectual conviction, a spiritual conversion, and a life-experience testimony as to why the "Mor- mon ' Church is for you. *t ♦Delivered at College Hall, May 10, 1925.