Daughters in My Kingdom

DAISY Intro

Navigation Marks

Relief Society Purposes

Contents

Message from the First Presidency

ix

Preface

xi xii

Why Study the History and Work...

Personal Study of Daughters in My Kingdom

xiii xiii

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1

1 3

Female Disciples in the New Testament

4 5 6

Female Disciples in the Latter Days

7

Sidebar

Chapter 2

9 11 12

Organizing the Relief Society

13 14

Priesthood Authority, Patterns, and Blessings

15

Early Excitement about Relief Society

16

Joseph Smith's Instructions

17

Increase Faith and Personal Righteousness

18

Strengthen Families and Homes

19 20 21

Provide Relief by Seeking Out...

22 23 24 25

That We May All Sit Down in Heaven...

Sidebars

Chapter 3

27 29

Exodus: Sustained by Covenants

30

Migration: Faith, Charity, and Mutual Support

31 32 33 34 35

Settlement: "Always Ready..."

36 37

"What Comes Next for Willing Hands to Do?"

Sidebars

Chapter 4

39 41 42

A Relief Society in Each Ward

43

Expanding the Sisters' Vision and Influence

44 45

Charity

Turning from Worldly Influences

Personal Revelation

46

Defending the Practice of Plural Marriage

47 48 49

Articulating Beliefs

50 51

Temporal Self-Reliance

52 53 54 55 56 57

Publications

58

Preparing Children and Young Women...

Moving Forward

59

Sidebars

Chapter 5

61 63

Living Peaceably in a Time of War

64 65 66 67

Strengthening Individuals and Families

68 69 70

Cultivating Self-Reliance

71 72 73 74

Strengthening the Bonds of Charity

75 76

"The Pure Love of Christ:: Charity in Action

77 78 79

Sidebars

Chapter 6

81 83

Worldwide Sisterhood

84 85 86

A Place of Refuge

87

A Place of Influence

88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98

An Ever-Expanding Circle of Sisters

99

Strengthening Sisterhood through Expressions...

100 101

Sidebars

Chapter 7

103 105

Beginnings of Visiting Teaching...

106 107

Visiting Teaching as a Spiritual Ministry

108

"The Rebirth of Visiting Teaching"...

109 110

A Privilege, A Duty, and a Commitment...

111 112

Visiting Teaching Today...

113

Commitment, Dedication, and Sacrifice

114

Seeking Spiritual Guidance

115 116

Teaching Truths and Bearing Testimony

117

Giving Temporal Help with Love

118

Mourning with Those Who Mourn...

119 120

How Visiting Teaching Blesses...

121 122 123

Side bars

Chapter 8

125 127

"Full Partakers of the Spiritual Blessings..."

128

Ordinances, Covenants, and Blessings

129

Gifts of the Spirit

130 131

Temple Blessings

132 133

Priesthood in the Home

134

Husband and Wife

135 136

Single Sisters and the Priesthood

137 138

Serving in the Church

139 140 141 142 143

Sidebars

Chapter 9

145 147 148 149

A "Reaffirmation of Standards..."

150 151 152

Temporal Responsibilities and Eternal Roles

Nurturing Families

153 154 155

Making Home a Center of Strength

156 157

Defending the Family and Motherhood

158 159

Latter-day Prophets Teachings aboiut the Family

160 161

"Glimpses of Heaven"

162 163 164 165

"May You Be Strengthened..."

The Family Proclamation

166 167

Sidebars

Chapter 10

169 171

Daughters of God

172

True Charity, a Legacy...

173 174 175 176

"My Turn to Serve"

177 178 179

"Lead the World..."

180 181

Sidebars

Important Events in the History of Relief Society

182

1830-1844

1846-1870

1872-1876

1878-1893

183

1913-1921

1936-1956

1969-1987

184

1992-1997

2004-2011

Relief Society General Presidencies

185

Emma Hale Smith

Eliza Roxey Snow

Zina Diantha Huntington Young

Bathsheba Wilson Smith

Emmeline Woodward B. Wells

Clarissa Smith Williams

Louise Yates Robison

Amy Brown Lyman

Belle Smith Spafford

Barbara Bradshaw Smith

Barbara Woodhead Winder

Elaine Low Jack

Mary Ellen Wood Smoot

Bonnie Dansie Parkin

Julie Bangerter Beck

Index

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