23 November 1870


Brigham City Relief Society; Brigham City, Utah Territory

[. . .]

Pres [A. Leonora Snow] Morley made a few remarks and as Sis Eliza R Snonow [Snow] had paid us a visit wished to hear Some instructions from her. Sis Eliza R Spoke <felt> glad to meet the Sis felt proud of the Saints gave us a verry interesting and instructing discorse that would be of great worth to us if wee put them in practice.

Spoke of Adam and Eve wile in the garden of Edon before the fall having equal rights but through transgression women became subject to man1 Spoke of the Carrictor [character] of women when living in Obediance to the Commands of god.

Spoke on Coopperation helping to bring about the order <of> Enoch. Spoke to the Sis on training the minds of their Childran when young by teaching them honisty and virtue and to Quit using vulger Phrases which She thought a disgrace to those professing to be Saints.

Spoke on the principle of plurality that it was the Lords design in rasing up a righteous posterity.

Thanked God that wee had trials.

Gave some good instructions to the young Sis.

Whished the Teachers to visit the Sis and adminester to the Sick

[. . .] [p. 19]

Source Note

Box Elder Stake, Relief Society Minutes and Records (1857–1954), vol. 1 (1868–1876), p. 19, CHL (LR 933 14).

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Footnotes

  1. [1]See “Eve, Adam, and the Fall” in Historical Context.