The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-17
KINGS DAUGHTERS
an Organization Designed to do
q Great Deal of Good.
HOW IT CAME INTO EXISTENCE
Far Reaching Objects of the Society and the
Work Accomplished by 1t During
Its Brief Existence.


problem worthy of the best solution and
the nobIest efforts, and it is no wonder
therefore that society organized for that
purpose should have rapid growth. That,
In brief, is the object of the 'King's
Daughters" society spreading its use
fulness and charity all over the country.
We DO not know whether a branch of the
daughters" exists in Salt Lake city. If
not, it is all the more remarkable as the
originator of the idea that gave the organ
ization life and soul, in an honored and
able, if modest and retired, townswoman
OF ours. She is none other than Mrs.
David Utter. At the request of The
HERALD sermon, giving practically
THE HISTORY OF THE KINGS DAUGHTERS,
delivered by the Rev. DR.. Utter in Chi
,$sago and there published at the time, was
landed 10 this paper. From this we quote:
The first band of Kings Daughters
definitely organized and working under this
name, came together in the city OF New
York on the 18th day of January, 1856.
Their leafiet, giving an account OF their
beginning puts the matter in these words:
After consideration Of the good TO be
gained and the good to be done by binding
themselves together by triple cord whose
anus hSLG 4dlll1, uOetG anu CLGY
decided TO organize themselves into an or
der or slsterhood of service, hoping by this
closer union to increase their usefulness
many fold. OF the various names pro-
posed for this order, the-one suggested by
Mrs. Irving WAS most favorably received.
The new order was therefore called The
Kings Daughters,' using for its badge
ribbon OF The royal color, TO be worn with
or without tie maltese cross. Since to
look upward Is TO trust ana TO look forward
Is TO nope, and TO look outward Is to feel
the woes Of others, forgetting our own, ana
TO lend hand is only love in action. the
members chose for their motto: Lock up
aud not down-Look forward and not back
LOOK out and not ln-Lend
hand And since Christ the elder
brother, lived these notices for their
example, they took for their Watchword:
In his name. The Kings Daughters are
responsible only to the king for their choice
OF a tieid OF labor hence in all details re-
lattng 10 work there is largest liberty. The
object is not to incumber the service with
needless organization, but to unite wgmen
willing or eager TO 90 the masters work in
way TO secure to each the sympathy and
cooperation Of all, and to induce all to
widen the circle OF helpfulness 10y drawing
1hTo 1t constantly more and mere hands TO
works for humanity, and more and more
hearts to love the King. Such is the story
OF the origin OF the Kings Daughters.
THE FLAN OF ORGANIZATION
is exceedingly simple. They are organized
IL groups OF ten, and any woman who
wishes to Join in the Christian work OF
doing good, in any way whatever. may call
herself Kings Daughter and associate
nine others with herself, and thus form a
ten IN this organization. There is Gen.
tral council in New York City, with con-
shtution and bylaws, that retains what
oversight 1t can Of the tens that so rapidly
formed everywhere in all this country. But
the story Of this organization is very in
complete without going back to the
more resl beginning, the origin of this idea
OF groups of ten, each member of which
should feel 1t his duty 10 associate with
himself nine others, who should also join
IL doing good in the name of Christ Tke
origin OF this IDEA OF working for the good
OF humanity ia groups of tens is, as most
OF you knew, in the little book written by
Edward Everett Hale, about the year 1870
Ten Times One Is Ten Ii is q small
book, one can almost read if in an hour, ana
yet fancy no man or woman ever did read
II without feeling deeply stirred aud with
out being reelly edited, built up il the
christian faith and strengthened in all
good desires and right impulses. and
helped Tor life. For The sake of the few In
my audience who are still unaequaintsd
with this wonderful little book, ! must be
dLUHOu u MOL4SAt 10 say -NQSt 1t Is. am
inclined to say that 1t is the whole gospel
of Christ, Illustrated or set forth in an ex-
ample, very pleasantly and forcibly put in
the form Of story.
THE STORY
is that ten persons, previously unknown to
each other, met to mourn the death of one
Harry Wadsworth, and each one had some
thing TO tell of this good man Wadsworth.
Each one had bis or her special story of the
good that this man, now dead, had done
and, speaking to one another about il, thew
summed his life up in four notices which
they thought represented his principles of
living and action. The four notices were
10 Look Up and Not Down; 70 Look For
ward and Not Back; TO Look Out and Not
In; and Lend Hand and they resolved
before parting TO meet again in ten years
hoping to report that each of the ten had
not only never forgotten these notices
himself never failed TO embody them. live
them out IN every day of his life, but that
he hsd also converted ten others to this way
OF living And, as the story goes, this was
actually done, and then the 100 sonar
sted 10 meet again in tsn years. each
having lived up to the notices. and each
having converted ten more. And then the
LOCO went out, and likewise in due time the
10000, the 100000, the LOCO. OaO, and so
on until the whole world was con-
verted TO this goodly way of life.
and all mankind were living accord
ing to these notices, which had guided
the life of Harry Wadsworth. The story.
IS l have said, made a great impression
upon 81 who read it, ana it was quite
widely read. added much to the fame of
MIR. Hale; added 10 his name not only dis
tinctor, but begoJ for him a sort of rev.
erence, the sort Of feeling that we have to-
ward people who have at some time in life
spoken work in season, that has lifted us
out OF difficulty and helped US in n way
that we can never forget And it was not
very long after the publication OF this book
before there were organized. in q great
many places widely separated all over this
country, little groups Of people who, meet
ing together, would agree with each other
to try TO put the theory of this book into
practice. A great many Of these groups
were called 'Wadnworth Clubs and some
of them were called Look Up Legions.,
Lend Hsnd Clubs Ten Times One Is
Ten Societies.; and, whatever the name
the four notices were always to the front
and the idea of doing good and of stimuIat-
ing others 10 enter upon the life Of I'M
selfish service TO humanity was ever prom
inent
THE ORIGIN.
'At the time Of the publication of this
book Mr.. Hale was editor Of the magazine
named Ola and NelU, which issued sort of
Christmas extra called the christmas
Locket, containing choice contributions OF
prose and poetry. It was in the issue of
1870 think, that there appeared a poem
called The Kings Daughter which was
widely copied by many newspapers of the
country, written by young woman in the
Etate OF Maine, whose name l need NOT
speak to this congregation, but will read
the poem:
She wears 10 jewel upon hard or brow.