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Nancy A. Hardesty, Women Called to Witness: Evangelical Feminism in the 19th Century (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1984), 113.
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Relief Society Record, “First Organization,” n.d., ca. June 1880, 5, Relief Society Record, 1880–1892, Church History Library; see also Sarah M. Kimball, “Early Relief Society Reminiscence,” Mar. 17, 1882, in Relief Society Record, 1880–1892, 29–30, Church History Library, Salt Lake City, in 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), 495; see also Jill Mulvay Derr and Carol Cornwall Madsen, “‘Something Better’ for the Sisters: Joseph Smith and the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo,” in Joseph Smith and the Doctrinal Restoration (Provo, Utah: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2005), 123–43.Sarah Cleveland stated that the Relief Society was “organized after the order of heaven” (Nauvoo Female Relief Society Minutes, Apr. 19, 1842, in Derr, Madsen, Holbrook, and Grow, First Fifty Years, 50; Jennifer Reeder and Kate Holbrook, eds., At the Pulpit: 185 Years of Discourses by Latter-day Saint Women [Salt Lake City: Church Historian’s Press, 2017], 16).
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Kimball, “Early Relief Society Reminiscence,” 29–30, in Derr, Madsen, Holbrook, and Grow, First Fifty Years, 495, spelling standardized.約瑟·斯密也說,他「要使這個組織成為一個祭司的國度,就像在以諾時代那樣,像在保羅的時代那樣」(Nauvoo Female Relief Society Minutes, Mar. 31, 1842, in Derr, Madsen, Holbrook, and Grow, First Fifty Years, 43)。紐奧·惠尼告訴婦女:「若沒有女性,所有這一切事工將無法復興到世上。必須要萬事共同效力,聖職才得以復興。」(Nauvoo Female Relief Society Minutes, May 27, 1842, in Derr, Madsen, Holbrook, and Grow, First Fifty Years, 75–76)。在1843年8月13日的一次聚會中,雷諾·柯洪說:「若無〔慈助會〕,教會的聖職體制就有欠缺,無法完整。」(Nauvoo Female Relief Society Minutes, Aug. 13, 1843, in Derr, Madsen, Holbrook, and Grow, First Fifty Years, 116)。
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Sarah M. Kimball, “Early Relief Society Reminiscence,” Mar. 17, 1882, in Relief Society Record, 1880–1892, 29–30, Church History Library, Salt Lake City; Derr, Madsen, Holbrook, and Grow, First Fifty Years, 495–96.
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Nauvoo Female Relief Society Minutes, Mar. 17, 1842, in Derr, Madsen, Holbrook, and Grow, First Fifty Years, 32.神給愛瑪的這項啟示現在收錄在教義和聖約第25篇。
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Nauvoo Female Relief Society Minutes, Mar. 17, 1842, in Derr, Madsen, Holbrook, and Grow, First Fifty Years, 35.
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見「約瑟·斯密的教導——談聖職、聖殿和婦女」,福音主題文章,topics.lds.org;Derr, Madsen, Holbrook, and Grow, First Fifty Years, 9–10.1843年8月13日,聖殿委員會成員雷諾·柯洪說:「這個組織是主所興起的,使我們預備好接受在主的殿、在聖殿中的偉大祝福」(Nauvoo Female Relief Society Minutes, Aug. 13, 1843, in Derr, Madsen, Holbrook, and Grow, First Fifty Years, 116)。
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Joseph Smith, Journal, December 1841–December 1842, 94, josephsmithpapers.org; Nauvoo Female Relief Society Minutes, Apr. 28, 1842, in Derr, Madsen, Holbrook, and Grow, First Fifty Years, 53–59.
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Nauvoo Female Relief Society Minutes, June 9, 1842, in Derr, Madsen, Holbrook, and Grow, First Fifty Years, 79.
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Nauvoo Female Relief Society petition to Thomas Carlin, circa July 1842, 8 pages, Church History Library, Salt Lake City; Derr, Madsen, Holbrook, and Grow, First Fifty Years, 136–41.
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Nauvoo Female Relief Society Minutes, March 17, March 31, April 28, May 26, June 9, and August 31, 1842, in Derr, Madsen, Holbrook, and Grow, First Fifty Years, 28–37, 42–46, 52–62, 68–72, 77–83, 92–96.
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Nauvoo Female Relief Society Minutes, March 31, 1842, in Derr, Madsen, Holbrook, and Grow, First Fifty Years, 44–45, spelling standardized.
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Derr, Madsen, Holbrook, and Grow, First Fifty Years, 13–14.
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See Brigham Young, discourse, Mar. 9, 1845, Nauvoo High Priests Quorum Record, 1841–1845, Church History Library, Salt Lake City; Brigham Young, Discourse, Mar. 9, 1845, Record of Seventies, Book B, 1844–1848, 77–78, First Council of the Seventy Records, Church History Library, Salt Lake City, in Derr, Madsen, Holbrook, and Grow, First Fifty Years, 168–71.
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Jill Mulvay Derr and Carol Cornwall Madsen, “Preserving the Record and Memory of the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo, 1842–92,” Journal of Mormon History, vol. 35, no. 3(Summer 2009), 89–95.