Eliza R. Snow: Poet, Leader, and Activist

June 29, 2010 by · Leave a Comment
Filed under: History of Music, Mormon Women's History, Women, Women of the Church 

Eliza R. Snow was a pioneer, an early president of the Relief Society (an organization for Mormon women), president of Deseret Hospital, president of the Women’s Department of the Endowment House, and an author. She is considered one of the great women in Mormon history.

Eliza R. Snow, Mormon pioneer

Eliza R. Snow

While many people pictured Mormon pioneer women as meek and mild, no one ever accused Eliza of such. She repeatedly protested this mischaracterization. One month before the Utah legislature returned to Utah women the suffrage they had lost when they gained statehood, she said: Read more

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Emma Smith and the First Hymns of the Church

May 8, 2008 by · Leave a Comment
Filed under: History of Music, Hymns, Music in Worship, Why Music? 

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was officially organized in April 1830. The Book of Mormon had been printed and the gospel was being to travel faster than ever. As the church grew, Joseph Smith continued to receive revelations to help him make sure the church he organized, was the one Jesus Christ wanted it to be: His church. Many of these revelations were written down and would later be compiled into what is now the Doctrine and Covenants. One of my favorite revelations was specifically given for Joseph’s wife, Emma Smith.

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