Elvira S. Barney on the Rights of Women
Elvira S. Barney
Wilt thou be with woman as thou hast with man, to strengthen her where she is weak that she may aid in the defense of truth and right, and where her voice is heard throughout the broad face of the earth, may it have echo in the hearts of the honest, and may she serve to smooth the wrinkles of unjust laws, as she does and has, the pillows beneath the aching heads of thy soldiers and servants. We pray thee that thou wilt bless thy handmaidens here in this little nook in the valleys of the mountains, that we may perform noble and grand acts that will compare with the grandeur of the mountains around.
“Prayer at the U.W.S.A. Convention held in the S.L. Assembly Hall,” Woman’s Exponent 18, no. 12, 94
Relief Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, November 15, 1889, speech
