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Women of Covenant (M. Beecher)

The Story of Relief Society

Jill Mulvay Derr,
Janath Russell Cannon,
Maureen Ursenbach Beecher

Deseret Book Company
Salt Lake City, Utah

© 1992 Jill Mulvay Derr, Janath Russell Cannon, Maureen Ursenbach Beecher
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About This Book

On March 17, 1842, twenty women assembled in the upstairs room of Joseph Smith's red brick store in Nauvoo, Illinois, were organized as the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo. A century and a half later that organization, now known as the Relief Society of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has over three million members in 135 countries and territories, uniting in sisterhood women who espouse the same goals as the founding members: to "cherish one another, watch over one another, comfort one another."