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No one need feel delicate in reference to inquiries about this…
Quote byEmma Smith · 1804–1879
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Nauvoo Relief Society Minute Book, March 24, 1842, compiled in 1.2.2 of Jill Mulvay Derr, Carol Cornwall Madsen, Kate Holbrook, and Matthew J. Grow, eds., The First Fifty Years of Relief Society: Key Documents in Latter-day Saint Women’s History (Salt Lake City: Church Historian’s Press, 2016). Minu.
English (original)
No one need feel delicate in reference to inquiries about this society. There is nothing private. Its objects are purely benevolent … , its objects are charitable: none can object to telling the good, the evil withhold.
— Emma Smith
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