"We are going to do something extraordinary. When a boat is stuck on the rapids with a multitude of Mormons on board we shall consider that a loud call for relief. We expect extraordinary occasions and pressing calls."
— Emma Smith

January 1, 1970

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Nauvoo Relief Society Minute Book, March 17, 1842, compiled in 1.2.1 of Jill Mulvay Derr, Carol Cornwall Madsen, Kate Holbrook, and Matthew J. Grow, eds., The First Fifty Years of Relief Society: Key Documents in Latter-day Saint Women’s History (Salt Lake City: Church Historian’s Press, 2016). Minute book scribed by Eliza R. Snow and Hannah M. Ells.