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Show Grandma was a member of the Relief Society from its organization. She was a member of the Relief Society Stake Board ol Morgan Stake with Grandma Rich, president and Sister Tonks the Second Counselor. Church Relief Society organized March 17, 1842; Woman's Suffrage came in 1848; read Relief Society Magazine, March, 1947 by Dr. Franklin Harris; radio Jan. 1932 for the best I know of Relief Society information, has grown from a small beginning to national and international in scope and is a charter member of the National Council of Women of the U. S. -40- TODAY To be alive in such an age! With every year a lightning page Turned in the world's great wonder book Whereon the leaning nations look . . . When miracles are everywhere, And every inch of common air Throbs a tremendous prophecy Of greater marvels yet to be. Oh, thrilling age! Oh, willing age! When steel and stone and rail and rod Become the utterance of God, A trump to shout his thunder through, Proclaiming all that man may do . . . To be alive in such an age! That thunders forth its discontent With futile creed and sacrament, Yet craves to utter God's intent. Seeing beneath the world's unrest Creation's huge untiring quest, And through Tradition's broken crust The flame of Truth's triumphant thrust; Below the seething thought of man The push of a stupendous plan. Oh, age of strife! Oh, age of life! When Progress rides her chariot high And on the borders of the sky The signals of the century Proclaim the things that are to be . . . Give thanks and clasp thy heritage— To be alive in such an age. —41— iM |