The following appropriate frontispiece, was found lying on an open Bible, in the room appropriated for the Society; at its first meeting.

〈Written on a scrap.〉

“O, Lord! help our widows, and fatherless children! So mote it be. Amen. With the sword, and the word of truth, defend thou them. So mote it be. Amen.”

This is shared from The First Fifty Years of Relief Society. The establishment of the Relief Society took place on March 17 1842.