To know the history, purpose, and destiny of the Relief Society
The Relief Society originally set up Deseret Hospital in the Twelfth Ward of the city of Salt Lake, in 1882. Two years later, it was moved to the Seventeenth Ward occupying the old Deseret University Building on the corner of 2nd West and 1st North (I believe this is where the Relief Society Building now […]
President Joseph Smith was in attendance at this meeting. It was noted that the room was full to overflowing with sisters wanting to become members of the new Society. (We don’t have that desire anymore. Sisters are too busy, preoccupied, or don’t feel included. How do we bring our sisterhood together, from the youthful sister, […]
We all grew up with the wonderful stories of Mary Fielding Smith showing her true womanhood as she crossed the plains. We applauded her courage, determination, and her success. In the book, “ The Women of Mormondom”, written by Edward W. Tullidge in 1877, and edited by Eliza R. Snow, we get the full account. […]
When the original Nauvoo Relief Society disbanded in 1844, the women stopped formally meeting together. But, the spirit of women cannot be hushed. Groups of women still managed to meet. They were still concerned for the poor, for one another, and for the needs of the community. In 1847, while the Saints gathered in Winter […]
When the “key was turned” by Joseph Smith, we, women of the Relief Society, were given knowledge and power to go where we were needed, to do what we needed to do, to step in, to uplift, to teach, to motivate, to bless, to create, to benefit, and to relieve in the way we see […]
The third General Relief Society President, after Emma and Eliza, was Zina D. H. Young. Zina Diantha Huntington was born in Watertown, New York, on January 31, 1821. Zina’s uncle, Samuel Huntington, was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Zina would be the second of the “Four Zina’s”; her mother being first. Her daughter, […]
The Relief Society Magazine debuted in 1915. It was a church publication where lessons were officially published for the month. This was a long beloved magazine, published until 1970, when all publications were combined into the three magazines presently used: The Friend, New Era, and The Ensign. The first editor of this magazine was Susa […]
Emma said attention should be given to being unified. “Every member should be held in full fellowship—all jealousy and evil feelings toward one another should be done away”. Women have a tendency to judge/attack other women. Did God really make us that way? Or do we succumb to the Natural Woman as easily and […]
We now have the Nauvoo Relief Society Minute Book available to read online at Joseph Smith Papers. Click on The Papers and search under Administrative Records, then Records of Organizations. Be sure to look around at many of the original documents they are putting onto this site. Joseph Smith called this first meeting,bringing with him […]
Our beloved Eliza R. Snow was so instrumental to the women of the church in this last dispensation, it is hard to condense her history. I encourage you to read her poems, her hymns, and her writings. Eliza Roxey Snow was born in Massachusetts on January 21, 1804. At the age of two, her family […]
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