Featured on my Facebook page, and posted here for archiving.

Lucy Woodruff Smith (1869-1937) and her daughter Emily Smith (later Stewart; 1895-1973) — the photo is of Lucy — served with their husband/father George Albert Smith in England while he was president of the European Mission in the years just after World War I. In 1920, Lucy and Emily attended the World’s Congress of Women in Christiania (today’s Oslo), Norway.

While considering their attendance there and the contacts they had made, George Albert Smith mused,

“I do wish that when our women’s organizations have an opportunity to send delegates to a great Congress like the one just held that they would select those who will be representative of our women in every sense of the word. Those who would have at heart first and foremost the gospel of Jesus Christ. Those opportunities don’t come very often and they are of sufficient importance to select our strongest women that we may be properly represented.”

Lucy and Emily were strong women who properly represented their people — and future Church President George Albert Smith appreciated the importance of such Latter-day Saint women acting on the world stage.