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Wow, a piece of history is now available through The Joseph Smith Papers project.  This is a page from the first meeting of the Relief Society.  And, through the miracle of technology, we can see it first hand.  Here is what the page says...

A



Book of Records.



Containing



the proceedings



of



The Female Relief Society of Nauvoo.



[4 lines blank]



The following appropriate frontispiece,



was found lying on an open Bible, in the room



appropriated for the Society; at its first meeting.



Written on a scrap.



“O, Lord! help our widows, and fatherless



children! So mote it be. Amen. With



the sword, and the word of truth, defend



thou them. So mote it be. Amen.”



[decorative lines]



This Book,



was politely presented to the Society by



Elder W[illard] Richards;



on the 17th of March, AD. 1842. [p. 4]


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