Brigham Young asked Emmeline Wells to organize a wheat storage program.\u00a0 Apparently, it wasn\u2019t easy to get the women out to glean the fields.\u00a0 The women were heard to say, \u201cI will rather give a bushel of wheat than go out to glean.\u201d\u00a0 It was such a problem that women, who refused to do their gleaning duty, were told they had \u201chands\u2026small, white, and tender\u201d; a statement clearly not to flatter.<\/p>\n
Even in 1878, they were worried about calamities of the \u201clast days\u201d, of destruction and the need to prepare for an emergency.\u00a0 Everyone understood the need to store, but no one wanted to do the work.\u00a0 Things never change, do they?<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of our most delicate and refined sisters went out with us and gleaned, quite sure of a severe headache, and on returning home, told us with becoming pride, that she had had no headache, and said she, \u2018I thought gleaning was so hard, so different from what it was.\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Isn\u2019t that what we say after spending hours at our local welfare unit?\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure I\u2019ve ever heard anyone say they absolutely hated working at those welfare projects.\u00a0 Nothing is terribly hard to do. \u00a0You are working with friends (and many of us make friends easily with others while working down there).\u00a0 It\u2019s common to receive a snack, lunch, or opportunity to buy, or take home, the product you worked on.\u00a0 Yet, we might still hear someone say, \u201cI will rather give [money] than go out to [serve].\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMay God bless those who have gleaned, those who will glean hereafter, and those who would cheerfully glean if they \u2018could\u2019, and all who lend their influence and efforts to the great object of filling the storehouses of the Lord.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Article: “Should we glean?”, Women\u2019s Exponent, Aug 1, 1878<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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