Sister Project - Favorite Shoes

Have you ever had a favorite pair of shoes? Describe them.

20 years ago answers come first, followed by 2019 answers.

Linda: One of my favorite shows on HGTV is Mission Impossible. Each episode shows someone’s office or playroom or bedroom totally out of control from clutter. Every time they show a bedroom redo I always shake my head in amazement mostly because of how many shoes so many women own – and won’t give up!

I can’t relate.

The shoe stack in my closet is seven feet tall and it’s filled with … books! I just don’t get into shoes.

I could be embarrassed to admit that I have a pair of black pumps that I wore as recently as last summer that are over 20 years old. They must be favorites. The only reason I don’t wear them to church much anymore is because I still wear another old pair of black suede Mary Janes that are flat and more comfortable. I’m at the stage where comfort trumps fashion. And this is why I like teaching the Sunbeams in Primary. Because I am on the floor half the time, I can justify having to wear thee simple out-of-fashion (and season) shoes every Sunday. So I hope I teach this class for a long time because I’d hate to lose my excuse to wear my favorite OLD shoes.

2019: Linda: In 8th grade I was thrilled to have a pair of the shoes that all the other girls were wearing because I started 7th grade in Hush Puppies! I remember favorite white plastic sandals as a little girl. I loved the era of wearing huaraches. For years I wore clog-like shoes that Julie thought were awful. I have never cared too much for shoes. I don’t have dozens of them like so many people do. I have been wearing the same church shoes for years and years. At this age it is all about comfort.

Kathi: I was a senior in high school. Sometime in the spring I went to LA with Mom and Dad who were going for a meeting. I, of course, stayed with Ann Jeffs, my best friend since kindergarten. She still didn’t drive, but I had recently learned how to drive a stick shift so we got to take her mom’s VW Bug and tootle around LA! But that’s another story(involving snooty parking valets in Beverly Hills, but as I said – another story!) Of course we went shopping, and I saw the most amazing pair of shoes. Pink suede with a cork (yes cork!) sole. For some reason, I didn’t buy them. But after I got home, I kicked myself! So I wrote Ann, sent her money, she bought them and shipped them to me. LOVED those shoes! I wish I had a picture. I wonder whatever happened to them…

I had another favorite pair of pink shoes in the 80’s. Peek-a-boo toe with a bow, sling back, cute heels. Made of a canvas-like fabric, but a beautiful soft shade of pink. I wore them to John’s uncle’s funeral and ruined them walking in the soft, wet dirt. I never could get the stains out. I was so sad. Loved those shoes too!

2019: Without question it was a pair of pink suede shoes with cork soles and heels I got in 1972. I probably told the same story the last time I answered this! I adored those shoes and I have no idea when I got rid of them. I remember wearing those awful black and white saddle shoes in kindergarten and I hated them with a passion. I managed to talk Mom out of making me wear them ever again. Then they came back into fashion years later – but I didn’t buy any. Too scarred.

Claire: My favorite shoes were ones I had in grade school, maybe around 4^th or 5^th grade. They were black leather, with laces that criss-crossed across the top of the foot, with pointed toes and tassels on the ends of the laces. I loved those shoes and every year for 2 years at least, I bought another pair when it came time for new shoes for a new school year. I think one year I bought white ones, not black ones. I just loved the style.

2019: In 5th and 6th grade I had a pair of shoes, (new ones each year) that were black with a leather tassel at the end of the tie. I loved these shoes and bought the same ones the next year ( think I chose a different color) when we went school clothes shopping. 

Annette: I’m not really into shoes but I had a favorite pair of leather sandals that I wore so much, the soles wore out and I started tipping sideways! Had to throw them out and I’ve never had a favorite since. I’m hoping I can find them again!

2019: Currently love my Polka dot red wedges with an ankle strap and bow. So cute!

Back to School

Clemence Sophia Harned 1813-1888

Tired of watching qualified female candidates being turned away from medical schools, our ancestor founded the New York Medical College and Hospital for Women in 1863 – the first place where women could be treated by doctors of their own gender. Clemence (pronounced “Clemency”) Sophia Harned was born in 1813 in Plainfield, New Jersey, the youngest of 13 children of Hannah Walker and David Harned. Though this was a Quaker family, this branch converted to Methodism. We have to go pretty far back in our family tree to find our common ancestors: Nathaniel Harned (b. 1693) and Sarah Dean (b.1694). We come from Nathaniel’s son Nathaniel and Anna Clawson, while Clemence descends from Nathaniel’s son Nathan and Elizabeth Van Court. (That makes her my 2nd cousin 5 times removed!) Growing up, Clemence watched her mother, the neighborhood ‘medicine woman’, who had learned Native American healing techniques while the family lived among them in Virginia for several years. Two of her brothers became doctors. Though her dream was to become a doctor, the idea of a woman attending medical school at the time was basically unheard of. When Clemence’s husband, Abraham Lozier, became ill, she needed to support her family so she opened a girls’ school in their New York City home around 1832. For the next decade her school educated an average of 60 girls a year. Her longtime interest in anatomy and hygiene led her to include these subjects in her curriculum, though they were considered inappropriate for young women. She had a firm grasp on these subjects because her brother, Dr. William Harned, was tutoring her on the side. Among other topics, she educated women on the physiological consequences of fashion, like the deformities and breathing problems resulting from wearing corsets. Around this time she also got involved with reform work, particularly with the New York Moral Reform Society, which aimed to steer women away from work as prostitutes and “reform” those who had fallen into it. Highly religious, Lozier edited the Moral Reform Gazette and held weekly gatherings to “promote holiness.” Clemence wanted to attend medical school and become a doctor but this purely male domain seemed impenetrable in the 1840s. In 1849 she heard about the success of Elizabeth Blackwell,

Elizabeth Blackwell

who had graduated from the Geneva Medical College of New York that year. So Clemence applied but was turned down as the school feared a scandal should they admit another woman. Undaunted, she pressed on and finally persuaded the Central Medical College of Rochester to allow her to attend its medical lectures. She was later admitted to New York's Syracuse Medical College. After earning her medical degree in March 1853, at the age of 40, Clemence returned to her New York City home and opened her own practice. In an age where there were virtually no medical school trained female doctors, she launched a successful practice, specializing in obstetrics and surgery. Many of the girls she had taught were now married and required obstetrical care, and they trusted their old teacher to provide it. Clemence was described as “the most ceaseless, tireless, sleepless worker I have ever seen” in the book "These Were the Women" by Mary Ormsbee Whitton. Around 1860, Clemence began a series of lectures in her home on anatomy, physiology, and hygiene because these subjects were neglected in women’s education. Her classes were always packed, showing an interest as well as a need, so Clemence sought out a charter for a women’s medical college. With the help of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, she was able to persuade the legislature to grant the charter.

New York Medical College & Hospital for Women

The New York Medical College and Hospital for Women opened on 1 November 1863, the first women’s medical college in the state. There were seven women in the inaugural class. But the struggle was far from over. The charter granted the female students the right to attend clinics at Bellevue Hospital, but the male students and professors made it clear they were not welcome, greeting them with hisses and jeers. At one point, the women required police escorts to attend the clinics. Though they could now earn their degrees, females could not become members of the American Medical Association until 1915. The school grew over the next 25 years, placing more than 200 female graduates in practices from Maine to California. Women from other countries came for training as well. The school’s hospital was run by Clemence’s students and graduates, serving about 200 patients annually. But the clinic served 2000 patients per year, highly popular because it was about the only place in the city where female patients could be treated by female doctors. Her home became a meeting place for advocates of women’s causes. She was president of the New York City Woman Suffrage Society from 1873-1886 and the National Suffrage Association from 1887-1878. She also served as president of the Moral Education Society of New York and of the Woman’s American Temperance League. She delivered the main address at her medical school’s 25th commencement ceremony in 1888. Two days later she passed away at age 74. For further reading: Clemence Sophia Harned Lozier - history 

Clemence Sophia Harned Lozier - History of American Women 

Wikipedia - Clemence Sophia Harned Lozier

August Birthdays

Ward H. Forman born 24 Aug 1926

Happy Birthday to all you who were born or married in August! Here are some ancestors who also celebrate special days in August. I've linked to some previous blog stories about some of them.

My father had an August birthday. Ward H. Forman (1926-2006) Ward H. Forman 24 Aug 1926
By the way, it's also his sister Mildred Forman Montana's birthday (same date 3 years later.) So she is 90 today.

On August 9, 1637, Hannah Feake was born to Elizabeth Fones Winthrop and Robert Feake. (There's a long story with Elizabeth! Black Sheep - Elizabeth Fones Winthrop Feake Hallett  )
Hannah married John Bowne and they are recognized as early founders of religious liberty in our young country. Religious Freedom is in Our Blood

5th great-grandmother and grandfather, Ann Egleton and John Fish, were married on 2 Aug 1767 in Norfolk, England.

6th great-grandfather, Timothy Taylor, was born 8 August 1729 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, one of a long line of Quaker Taylors.

7th great-grandparents James Hosken and Jane Taylor were married 5 August 1705 in Cornwall, England. The Baragwanath line ties in here.

12th great-grandmother, Agnes Sharpe who later married Adam Winthrop, was born 10 August 1503 in Islington, England. Their grandson John Winthrop would become the first governor of Massachusetts.

And because everyone needs a little royalty in their family lines, on 7 August 1282, Elizabeth Plantagenet, Princess of England, daughter of King Edward I and Eleanor of Castile, was born in Rhuddlan, Wales. 18th great-grandmama!! This is also the Baragwanath line.

And a very happy birthday to all our living August celebrators!!

Religious Freedom is in our Blood

Bowne House in Flushing, Queens, New York

One of the oldest homes in our family tree is still standing in Flushing, Queens, New York after 357 years. John Bowne (1627-1695) built his salt-box style Dutch farmhouse around 1661 on land purchased from the Matincock Indians for eight strings of wampum. (about $14)

John Bowne

John married Hannah Feake (1637-1677), daughter of Elizabeth Fones Winthrop Feake Hallett (remember her?) in 1656. Hannah was practically early American royalty, being the great-niece of John Winthrop, the founder and governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. As part of the Dutch colony of New Netherlands, Flushing was subject to the laws of the colony. The heads of the Reformed Dutch Church disapproved of Quakerism, so Governor Peter Stuyvesant issued an edict “forbidding anyone in the colony to entertain a Quaker or to allow a Quaker meeting to be held in his or her house under penalty of a fine of fifty pounds.” Strong words considering the fact that the same colony housed a large number of Quakers (Friends), who at that time had to worship in the woods to avoid detection. “The story goes that Hannah Bowne was nursing her baby by a frosty window looking out into the deeps of the Flushing Forest. She heard hymns, saw a flicker of candlelight between the trees—hulking oaks and big, stalwart tulip trees pointing straight up to heaven. She put her baby in the cradle and walked out the door in her white nightdress, the poplin cool against her skin, feeling strange and beautiful in the evening light. She followed the voices, found the Friends missionizing by a stump, off in the distance, who took her in their arms, and sung her back to camp.”The Bowne House: A Story of Religious Freedom                                     Hannah became a Quaker before her husband ever joined. Because of her he allowed Quaker meetings in his home, a famous act of civil disobedience. Because of her he was arrested for doing so. By then he had become a Quaker himself and though pacifist by persuasion, he didn’t intend to go down easily.  

John Bowne Before Governor Stuyvesant

“Bowne refused to pay his fine or to admit any wrongdoing, even refusing to escape when his cell door was conveniently left open for him. By this time, a no-doubt exasperated Stuyvesant felt that he had no choice but to banish Bowne and to send him packing on the next ship bound for Holland. But, wink-wink, he told him that he was free to get off the ship at any point before it reached its final destination.” Hannah Feake Bowne, Not Just Your Average Quaker John presented his case before the Dutch West India Company in Holland. The burghers in Holland fired off a letter to Governor Stuyvesant that said: “The consciences of men at least ought ever to remain free and unshackled.” Take that, Governor Stuyvesant!

John returned, vindicated, to his wife in New York (New Netherlands came under English rule in 1664). Quaker meetings were held twice a week in the Bowne home for the next thirty years. While John was jailed, Hannah is said to have conducted Quaker meetings in his absence. She raised eight children but found time for missionary work, traveling to Ireland and England to pursue fundraising for the Quaker movement. While in London in 1677 she became ill and died there. The John and Hannah Bowne Home is considered by many to be the birthplace of American religious freedom. (It is now owned and operated by The Bowne House Historical Society.)

 Our ancestry: John & Hannah Bowne>>Mary Johanna Bowne>>Jacob Thorne>>Mary Thorne>>Jacob Laing>>Phebe Laing>>Edward Harned>>Harriet Yardley Harned>>Edgar Charles Forman . . .

Black Sheep - Elizabeth Fones Winthrop Feake Hallett

How would you like to read a story that includes Indian massacres, abusive politicians, the colonial turf wars in Connecticut (Dutch? English?), the oppressiveness of religious institutions (those Puritans didn’t stand for any nonsense!), the drawing of town and state lines, the growing influence of the Quakers, all intertwined with one woman’s stormy life? I’ve mentioned this ancestor before but she fills the bill for this week’s prompt: Black Sheep. Though I would classify her more as a pioneer and survivor, for the times in which she lived I’m sure she was a black sheep – she definitely stood out! Born in 1610, Elizabeth Fones was the daughter of Thomas Fones, an apothecary in London, and Anne Winthrop. Anne’s father, Adam Winthrop, was a wealthy Suffolk clothier. His success enabled him to join the gentry and so the Winthrops became squires and lords of Groton Manor.

John Winthrop, later governor of Massachusetts

In 1629 Elizabeth married her first cousin, Henry Winthrop, son of John Winthrop who later became the first governor of Massachusetts. John was a devout Puritan and lawyer, and became the leader of the Winthrop Fleet, the first 1000 settlers to sail to Massachusetts with the Massachusetts Bay Company. 
In 1630, Henry left for Massachusetts aboard the Talbot in Winthrop’s Fleet (after being too late to catch the Arabella and travel with his father some months earlier.) Elizabeth remained in England awaiting the birth of their first child. On 2 July, the Talbot arrived in Salem, intending to then proceed to Charlestown. Henry saw a native canoe on the opposite side of the North River. He jumped in the river to investigate, but a few minutes later he was "seized with cramps" and went down in full sight of his friends, who could not swim.
Elizabeth arrived in Massachusetts 2 Nov 1631 with her new baby. She made the crossing on the Lyon with several family members and about 100 other passengers.
Within months of arriving, her uncle Governor John Winthrop encouraged her to marry Lt. Robert Feake, a wealthy landowner. The Feakes acquired more land in what is now Greenwich, Connecticut. Elizabeth is considered one of the founders of Greenwich; the area now called “Greenwich Point” was earlier known as “Elizabeth’s Neck” in recognition of Elizabeth Fones and the 1640 purchase of the Point and much of what is today Old Greenwich. The deed reads: "...except ye neck by ye Indians called Monakewago, by us Elizabeth Neck, which neck is ye peticaler perchace of Elizabeth Feaks, ye sd Robt Feaks his wife, to be hers and her heaires or assigns, forever….” Undoubtedly, Elizabeth used her own money, probably what she inherited from her father’s estate, to make this purchase. The fact that a woman held property in her own name was viewed with dismay in the rigid society of that time.

Elizabeth Neck (now Greenwich Point, Connecticut)

Elizabeth and Robert had five children; Elizabeth, Hannah (through whom we descend), John, Robert and Sarah.

Robert began to exhibit signs of mental illness fairly early in the marriage and eventually abandoned his family by living apart and then returning to England. Elizabeth later married Robert’s business manager, William Hallett. This was scandalous in the Puritan world because it didn’t appear that Elizabeth and Robert had divorced, and he was still alive. (Robert eventually did return to America and ended up being supported by the town of Watertown between 1650 and his death 12 years later, still insane.) In 1966 Donald Lines Jacobus reviewed this sticky problem, and came to the conclusion that Robert Feake and his wife did obtain a divorce from the Dutch government, that she had married William Hallett by August 1649, and that the marriage was performed by John Winthrop Jr., her former brother-in-law. Because of the scandal, Elizabeth and William left Connecticut for the Dutch Colony of New Netherlands/New York and settled in an area called Hallett’s Cove, now known as Astoria, Queens, near Hell Gate.

Map detail showing Hallett's plantation (now Astoria, Queens)

In September 1655, their family, now including two sons, William and Samuel, survived an attack by the Hackensack tribe of Indians. The house and farm buildings burnt to the ground. Elizabeth then purchased land in Flushing and Newtown. The following year William was made the chief official of Flushing. In 1664 William purchased all of Hell Gate Neck, Riker’s and Berrien’s Islands from the Indians for the sum of 58 fathom of wampum, 7 coats, 1 blanket, 4 kettles.
Since writing the original story about Elizabeth, I've learned that we also directly descend from her son William Jr. from husband William Hallett.  (William Hallett >> William Hallett Jr. >> Rebecca Hallett >> John Jackson who married Sarah Doty - 3 generations before is our Mayflower ancestor, Edward Doty >> Mary Jackson >> Rachel Shotwell >> Phebe Laing >> Edward Harned >> Harriet Yardley Harned >> Edgar Charles Forman . . .)
Upon the marriage of daughter Hannah Feake to John Bowne, Elizabeth and William Hallett joined them in becoming Quakers. The Puritans who had made her life so difficult had not turned her completely from God. Elizabeth died about 1665 (some records say 1673) at about age 55 in Newtown, Queens County, New York. William died in 1690. As descendants of Elizabeth Fones Winthrop Feake Hallett, as well as of her daughter Hannah Feake Bowne, we have famous company. Amelia Earhart, John Kerry, Bill Gates and Johnny Depp are also descendants!                       

Read more about our illustrious ancestress: 
Insubordinate Spirit: A True Story of Life and Loss in Earliest America 1610-1665 by Missy Wolfe (this is a well-researched book)

Winthrop Woman by Anya Seaton (this is more of a fictionalized version)

Our Pedigree from Elizabeth: Elizabeth>>>Hannah Feake>>>Mary Bowne>>>Jacob Thorne>>>Mary Thorne>>> Jacob Laing (at this point, if we followed his wife Rachel Shotwell, we’d arrive at our Mayflower ancestor, Edward Doty)>>>Phebe Laing>>>Edward Harned>>>Harriett Yardley Harned>>>Edgar Charles Forman . . .

Originally posted at FamilySearch.org Memories

An Unexpected Pioneer Ancestor

Pioneers camped at Green River, Wyoming by George Ottinger

On April 16, 1847, a group of 148 Latter-day Saints in 72 wagons left Nebraska and began the 1,031-mile journey to the Salt Lake Valley. They arrived in the Salt Lake Valley between the 21st and 24th of July 1847.
In the years that followed, tens of thousands of Latter-day Saints from around the world would leave their homes and follow the same route to the Salt Lake Valley. This week in Utah we celebrate Pioneer Day on July 24th, in commemoration of that first company of Latter-day Saints who arrived in the Salt Lake Valley in 1847. Since Dad (Ward H. Forman 1926-2006) was the first of our family to join the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, our pioneer ancestors are few, and not direct. But we are related to some of those hardy souls who risked it all to travel to the west where they could worship as they pleased, much as our Mayflower and Puritan and Quaker ancestors did. Surprisingly then, this pioneer story is from Mom’s (Josephine T. Forman 1925-) side of the family! A common ancestor on the Canham side was Emma Girdlestone. This is a bit of her story.

Emma Girdlestone Ridges Smith

Born in March 1835 in Norfolk, England, she joined the church after hearing the missionaries preach in her town. She immediately knew their message to be the true gospel of Jesus Christ. She was baptized at 13 years old. Her parents joined as well. When the gathering to Utah was advised, they saved and prepared to leave their native land and loved ones to start a new life in a foreign land. Emma and her parents left England in the spring of 1856, when Emma was 21. After many delays, they departed from Iowa City, Iowa in July 1856 with the Willie Handcart company. The company had about 500 individuals, 100 handcarts, and 5 wagons when it began. Some days they traveled as much as 30 miles, pushing and pulling their handcarts.

Emma's hand iron, carried across the plains

Emma was a seamstress by trade and she brought her hand iron with her on the trip. Since the travelers were only allowed 17 lbs of belongings each, she could not put the iron on the handcart, but instead tied it to her waist and carried it across the plains. 

  Fall came on early and hard that year. Company provisions ran low causing rations to be cut down to one-half, then one-quarter, and still later to just barely enough to sustain life. Many grew ill from exposure and lack of food.

Ever Onward by Joseph Brickey

The Saints in Salt Lake didn’t learn of the existence of this and other stranded handcart companies until early October. At that point Brigham Young issued an urgent plea to the people for assistance. The first relief company left Salt Lake City 3 days later. By October 19th, the Willie company issued the last of their flour, and the first snowstorm of the season hit. Express rescuers arrived that day and assured the Willie company that help and food were just a day or two away. On October 21st, the needed supplies arrived. They then made a brutal trek over Rocky Ridge in Wyoming during a blizzard on October 23rd. 15 members of the company were buried the next day. Emma’s parents died within 4 days of each other during this time period. Now she was on her own.

Pioneers Entering the Salt Lake Valley by King Driggs

Ten supply wagons met the Willie Company on October 31st, west of Green River. By November 3rd, additional teams had reached them and all the company members were able to ride in wagons. They arrived in Salt Lake City on 9 November 1856. Emma told her descendants that as they came into the valley the sun was shining and flooding the valley with its glory; it looked like a Heaven of peace and rest to those weary travelers. Emma married twice and had at least 8 children, and has a very large posterity now. She always bore a strong testimony of the truthfulness of the gospel. She died in 1914 in Logan, Utah.

Though not all Latter-day Saint pioneer stories were this dramatic, and some were much worse, in general the people were willing to sacrifice in order to gather with others of common belief and live free to practice their religion. Of special note is that the Willie Company also included several members of the Moulton family, ancestors of Annette’s husband, Jess Moulton, as well as several Caldwell family members, who are ancestors of my husband, John D. Van Natter.

A version of this story was originally share at Family Search Memories 22 July 2018

With Faith in Every Footstep

Since we came into possession of the Forman Bible and learned we are descended from the Longstreet family, this year we have more Mormon Pioneers to celebrate!

Will of Samuel Longstreet (1735-1829) naming his daughter Mary, wife of Isaac Forman

But they didn't all come by land.

Mary Ann Shinn Burtis Robbins

Samuel Longstreet had a sister Andrea who married William Burtis. They had a son Abner, who married Rachel Shinn (who emigrated from Ireland with her 3 sisters.) Abner and Rachel Burtis had a daughter Mary Ann (my 2nd cousin 5 times removed) while they lived in New Jersey. She married Isaac Rogers Robbins in 1838. They joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1840 and traveled to Nauvoo, Illinois to join the Saints there. But poor health sent them back home to New Jersey.

At the request of Church leaders, Samuel Brannan procured a sailing vessel for a company of Saints living on the east coast, to make their way to join the Saints in the west via sea voyage around Cape Horn. All but 12 of the 238 passengers were church members, including Mary Ann and Isaac Robbins, and their 3 children. They sailed on 4 Feb 1846, the same day the Saints began their exodus from Nauvoo. It was a hazardous voyage due to storms, scurvy, and low fresh water supplies. They crossed the equator on both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, went from the icy Antarctic to the tropical Hawaiian Islands and then on to California. They finally landed in Yerba Buena (now San Francisco) on 31 Jul 1846. Their nearly 6 month journey had covered about 24,000 miles.

Voyage of the Brooklyn 1846

After a year and a half, a company was formed under Ebenezer Brown which included, among others, the Robbins family and a group of returning Mormon Battalion veterans. They traveled for two months from Pleasant Valley, California, on the newly-constructed Carson Pass wagon road over the Sierras to Salt Lake Valley. The hard life took its toll on Mary Ann, and she passed away at the age of 38 on 11 Jun 1849, the same day their oldest son, Joseph Reeves Robbins (age 9) also died. Her husband Isaac took the 3 remaining children and settled in Provo. Isaac married Abiah Russell Carter in 1852, and had 11 more children!

They traveled with an unshakable faith in God. Their descendants number now in the thousands.


Faith in Every Footstep

1. A marvelous work has begun to come forth among all the children of men.

O ye that embark in the service of God, give heart, mind, and strength unto him;

For prophets have spoken and angels have come to lift the world from sin,

That Christ may reign over all the earth and bless his gathered kin.

Chorus

2. Those marvelous Saints who embraced this great work and shared it in lands far and near;

Who gave all their heart, mind, and strength to the Lord with wisdom and vision so clear;

Now stand as examples of virtue and faith, of souls prepared to hear,

Of knowledge sure, born of humble heart, and love that banished fear.

Chorus

3. If we now desire to assist in this work and thrust in our sickle with might;

If we will embark in the service of God and harvest in fields that are white;

Our souls may receive the salvation of God—the fulness of his light,

That we may stand, free of sin and blame, God’s glory in our sight.

Chorus

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With faith in every footstep, we follow Christ, the Lord;

And filled with hope through his pure love, we sing with one accord.

Copyright © 1996 LDS. All rights reserved. This song may be copied for incidental, noncommercial home or church use. This notice must be included on each copy made.