Based on the music, I suspect this was intended to be sung by a women’s chorus (SSAA?). With a little imagination, I can combine Phantom’s music with one of Ardis’ old “Latter-day Saint Images” photos and transport myself back in time a century or so.

Withdrawals from the wheat stores were made frequently through the years, to help farmers with seed, or during bad harvest years, and to send to survivors of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake — so I tend to think of it as an ongoing “be prepared” kind of program; the “day of need” comes around for most of us at different times. Certainly, though, when the great reserve was sold all in one transaction with the government, many Latter-day Saints did see it as a kind of prophetic preparation for that specific moment.

When did Brigham Young specifically take action on calling “the General Relief Society president…to save and store wheat against a day of need”? Just wondered if this could be pointed out as a specific prophecy fulfilled or was it just a general you should always be prepared type of direction. Just curious.