This is the first edition of the Relief Society handbook, which was afterward then published on a regular basis. The first handbook includes a history of the Relief Society, biographies of the general presidents, organization procedure, and instructions for Relief Society organizations. It was published in multiple languages. Church History. Online Resources: Relief Society Minute Book, March March The minute book of the Female Relief Society organized in Nauvoo, Illinois, includes an account of the organization of the Relief Society, and meeting minutes, membership lists, and instructions given by Joseph Smith and other Church leaders from to Relief Society Record, This collection provides an account of the organization of the general Relief Society in Salt Lake City in and a record of Relief Societies established in wards and stakes.
In the summer of the Female Relief Society circulated a petition signed by its members to Governor Carlin "for protection from illegal suits then pending against the Prophet Joseph Smith.
One of the items purchased for the poor by the Society with that money was a cow for the use of "the widow H. During the Society's 7 July, , meeting, mention was made of the desperate circumstances of a widower with nine children. Sisters banded together and provided the family with a number of items including pantaloons, mittens, and thread. Sick men were taken in by some, and others stated their willingness to do anything that was needed.
Meetings of the Society continued until March After Joseph Smith, Jr. During the s, while church members tried to gain a foothold in the Utah desert, church meetings were held irregularly. However, several wards in Utah had temporary Relief Society organizations. Among their purposes was the feeding and clothing of Native Americans. Though these women were poor themselves, they felt the need of Native Americans exceeded their own.
Corary as secretary. That organization continued for three years and kept complete minutes and financial reports. In , Brigham Young instructed the women "to form themselves into societies The following year, the Provo Relief Society collected clothing for handcart pioneers trapped in early snows of that year. Said Lucy Meserve Smith, "The sisters stripped of their petticoats, stockings, an everything they could spare, right there in the Tabernacle, and piled [them] into wagons to send to the saints in the mountains.
Later that year, the arrival of Johnston's army interrupted the regularity of the work of the Society where it had begun. These fledgling ward Relief Societies were disrupted when displaced families separated from their ward groups and located wherever housing or work could be found. Only the societies in the southernmost areas of Utah remained functioning.
It is believed that fewer than five Relief Societies survived this upheaval. Snow , to assist bishops in organizing permanent branches of the Relief Society in all Church units in the year She and nine other sisters began visiting wards and settlements, and at the end of the year, organizations existed in all twenty Salt Lake City wards, in nearly every county in Utah, and other nearby communities.
Meetings were held semi-monthly. One meeting per month was devoted to sewing and caring for the needs of the poor, and at the other meeting, members received instructions and encouragement from the discussion of elevating and educational themes and bore testimonies.
Her counselors were Zina D. Young first and Elizabeth Ann Whitney second. The office of Secretary was held by Sarah M. Kimball, and Treasurer was M.
Isabella Horne. This centralization organized a number of Relief Societies under one president. In April , two offices were added to Central Board: Assistant and Corresponding secretary, comprising a total Board of seven officers. Zina D. Young became third General President at that time, with Jane S. Richards, First Counselor; Bathsheba W. Smith, Second Counselor; Sarah M. Kimball, Secretary; Romania B.
Wells, Corresponding Secretary; and M. Isabella Horne, General Treasurer. Heretofore, Board members had become expert at repairing wagon wheels and harnessing and unharnessing teams during their travels to instruct branches of the Relief Society. In April , a call went out to all stake Relief Societies to send representatives to a General Conference of Relief Society to be held the evening of Saturday, April 6, Twenty stakes were represented at that first Relief Society Conference, some of whom had traveled over miles to attend by rail or carriage.
Nearly 30, Saints lived in Europe and England. About half of these members were in Germany where receiving aid was the most difficult.
Truman asked how long it would take for the Church to gather supplies. He was astonished to find that food, clothing, and bedding were ready and waiting. Over 3, quilts, hand made by Relief Society sisters, were included in that impressive stockpile.
Members living in countries liberated by the Allies could receive eleven-pound packages immediately, and so the Church sent one relief package to each of the 7, members of the Church in those countries. The immediate availability of those stockpiled supplies allowed the Church to relieve many suffering European Saints during the unusually harsh winter of During the s, Relief Societies were organized at Brigham Young University , giving young women more opportunities for service.
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Works Cited. Devout brothers and sisters opened their homes for meetings and donated their means and land to the emerging church. Part 1 contains early documents that proved formative to this process.
Strong, supportive women surrounded Joseph Smith in his family, including his mother, Lucy Mack Smith, and his wife, Emma Hale Smith, who served as his first scribe when he translated the Book of Mormon.
In July Joseph dictated a revelation addressed to Emma about her role in the fledgling church Document 1. Twelve years later, in , the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo was organized.
The twelve other documents in Part 1, dating from to , demonstrate how a new degree of institutional inclusion for women introduced new possibilities as well as new tensions in the s. The years between the revelation for Emma Smith and the establishment of the Relief Society were a defining period for the church.
Moving from its New York beginnings to Ohio in early , the church then pressed into Missouri in summer while retaining a core in Ohio; after pressure for most members to leave Ohio in early and then a violent expulsion by Missouri militia in winter —, the church reassembled most of its members in western Illinois. Church membership grew from a few hundred at the end of to an estimated fifteen thousand by the end of About a third of those members lived outside Nauvoo and its surrounding communities.
Women actively contributed to the Latter-day Saint community as it expanded and relocated. They fed and sheltered new arrivals; some wives accompanied their husbands on missions.
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