The Female Relief Society of Nauvoo

What is it?

It is an Institution form'd to bless To stamp a vetoing impress on each move

The poor, the widow, and the fatherless- That Virtue's present dictates disapprove-

To clothe the naked and the hungry feed, To put the tattler's coinage, scandal, down,

And in the holy paths of virtue, lead. And make corruption feel its with'ring frown.

To seek out sorrow, grief and mute despair, To give instruction, where instruction's voice

And light the lamp of hope eternal there- Will guide the feet and make the heart rejoice-

To try the strength of consolation's art To turn the wayward from their recklessness,

By breathing comfort to the mourning heart. And lead them in the ways of happiness.

To chase the clouds that shade the aspect, where It is an Order, fitted and design'd

Distress presides; and wake up pleasures there- To meet the wants of body, and of mind-

With open heart extend the friendly hand To seek the wretched, in their long abode-

To hail the stranger, from a distant land. Supply their wants, and raise their hearts to God.

E. R. SNOW.

Elder Andrew L. Lamoreaux is requested to come to Nauvoo, to answer to certain charges that are preferred against him.

The Times and Seasons, Is edited, printed and published about the first and fifteenth of every month, on the corner of Water and Bain Streets, Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, by JOSEPH SMITH

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