At the October 1856 general conference, President Brigham
Young (1801–77) announced that handcart pioneers were still crossing the plains
and that everyone was to help gather supplies for them immediately. Lucy
Meserve Smith wrote that women “stripped off their petticoats (These were large
underskirts. In October, many of them would have been quilted and quite warm.)
stockings, and everything they could spare, right there in the Tabernacle, and
piled them into the wagons.” As the rescued pioneers began to arrive in Salt
Lake City, Lucy wrote, “I never took more pleasure in any labor I ever
performed in my life, such a unanimity of feeling prevailed. I only had to go
into a store and make my wants known; if it was cloth, it was measured off
without charge.” President George Albert Smith (1870–1951) said of ministering
to others: “Our eternal happiness will be in proportion to the way that we
devote ourselves to helping others.”
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