“I have tried to live my religion and do the best I could. I have been a member of the Relief Society since I was eighteen. I worked in the Endowment House with Eliza R. Snow, Zina Young, Wilford Woodruff, and was well acquainted with all of them. Then I worked in the Salt Lake Temple. … My heart is with you; it is with every Latter-day Saint. I want to continue on, although the time has come now that it is necessary to have younger women to do the work of the Relief Society. We are getting numerous and we need younger people. President Smith used to say to us that the time would come when the Relief Society would be run by younger women – Latter-day Saints who have the gospel in their hearts and can also appeal to the young. Some people think that nobody but old ladies should belong to the Relief Society, but that is not right. The old ladies have done their work and should continue on doing all they can, but the time will come when the young ladies will be chosen to do the detail work.”

– Julina Lambson Smith, counselor in Relief Society general presidency, 1921