--- 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: 11 published: 1926-09 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: "Unknown, “Hymn in Honor of the Prophet Joseph Smith,” *Improvement Era* 29, no. 11 (September 1926): 1099." source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera29011unse 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: improvementera29011unse start_page: 1099 end_page: 1099 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1926-09) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera29011unse 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. --- # Hymn in Honor of the Prophet Joseph Smith Hymn in Honor of the Prophet Joseph Smith Of pristine royal birth, In heaven's hosts on high; Ordained to come to earth; Empowered to prophesy; Endowed he was with light and truth, Taught by the Spirit in his youth, (Through all the former gifts it bore) The gospel to restore! Through heaven's power controlled He asked what -he should do: The heavens, as of old, Re-opened to his view: He saw the Father and the Son; The keys of revelation won, — Re-voiced through God from courts above, And by the Savior's love! To him God's angels brought The keys of truth desired; And revelation taught Celestial laws inspired: Beloved of heaven, Prophet-Seer, He made the law of heaven clear, (The fulness of the Gospel-Plan) Revealed from God to Man! Forever hold most dear The faith that he commends; His name let us revere As one that God befriends! Now, where celestial courts approve, He triumphs through the power of love; And all the earth shall yet esteem The Seer! the Seer supreme! Los Angeles, Calif. Joseph Longking Townsend.