Lydia Alder records Jane Manning James's patriarchal blessing being read during a May 1894 Women's Meeting.

Date
Jun 1, 1894
Type
Periodical
Source
Lydia D. Alder
LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Reference

Lydia D. Alder, "Ladies' Semi-Monthly Meeting," Woman's Exponent 22, no. 18 (June 1, 1894): 141, M205.1 W872 v. 1-41 1872-1914, Church History Library

Scribe/Publisher
Woman's Exponent
People
Hyrum Smith, Lydia D. Alder, Mary Isabella Hales Horne, Jane Manning James
Audience
Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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Transcription

Ladies' semi-monthly meeting held in the Fourteenth Ward Assembly Hall, May 19, 1894. Sister M. Isabella Horne presiding. …

By request President Horne granted permission for the patrichal blessing, given by the Patriarch Hyrum Smith to Sister Jane James, to be read in the meeting. The blessing was read by Sister Alder.

Sister Elmina Taylor said, it is comforting to know that he who doeth well shall be blessed.

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