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A thought from the scriptures

Published: Saturday, March 7, 1992

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Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. - Isa. 1:17

"Someday, when the whole story of this and previous dispensations is told, it will be filled with courageous stories of our women, of their wisdom and their devotion, their courage," said President Spencer W. Kimball at the April 1978 general conference. ". . . Just as women were the first at the sepulchre of the Lord Jesus Christ after His resurrection, our righteous women have so often been instinctively sensitive to things of eternal consequence. . . .""The Prophet Joseph Smith . . . advocated liberally for women in the purest sense of the word, and he gave them liberty to fully express themselves as mothers, as nurses to the sick, as proponents of high community ideals, and as protectors of good morals."