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I will go forward. . . . \u00a0I will smile at the rage of the tempest, and ride fearlessly and triumphantly across the boisterous ocean of circumstance. . . . \u00a0And the \u2018testimony of Jesus\u2019 will light up a lamp that will guide my vision through the portals of immortality, and communicate to my understanding the glories of the Celestial kingdom.<\/strong> \u00a0(Eliza R. Snow, 1804-1887)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n One of the greatest lights in the first generations of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints<\/a> was the poet Eliza R. Snow, a native of Becket, Massachusetts, who served from 1866 until her death on the anniversary of the birth of Joseph Smith in 1887 as the second president of the Relief Society. \u00a0She was a plural wife, first, of \u00a0Joseph Smith and then, after his assassination, an open plural wife of his successor, Brigham Young.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n ***<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The 4 November 2018 edition of the Interpreter Radio Show<\/a> is now available for your edification and listening pleasure. \u00a0In it, Neal Rappleye, Jasmin Rappleye, and Stephen Smoot discuss the Church\u2019s musical pageants, the recent Joseph Smith Papers Conference and the Book of Abraham, Book of Mormon geography, and anti-Semitism:<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Interpreter Radio Show \u2014 November 4, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n