“The Relief Society since its first organization has done a great work, not only materially but spiritually, and the women engaged in this work have grown in grace and in knowledge of right living. Many of those who have been valiant in the work have passed away and another generation is on the stage of action. Comparatively few of the veterans of the Society are now living to instruct and persuade and remind these younger members of the conditions and the struggles associated with the establishment of the Relief Society. But what an education, both temporal and spiritual, the Society has been to the women who have labored in it!”

– Emmeline. B Wells