Miraculous Increase of Eggs for the Relief Society in Ephraim
Published October 12, 2026 at 6:12 AM
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Millennial Star Research
The sisters of the Relief Society in Ephraim, Sanpete Stake, organized a project to raise money to help gather the poor from abroad by donating all the eggs their hens laid on Sundays. It was observed that the chickens seemed to lay more eggs on Sunday than any other day of the week, enabling the society to raise hundreds of dollars for their cause.
In Their Own Words
“The members of the society agreed among themselves that they would donate all the eggs their hens should lay on Sundays for the purpose of emigrating the poor. This was carried out for many years and some of the other settlements followed the example of the good sisters of Ephraim. It looked as if the chickens entered into the spirit of the thing for they seemed to lay more eggs on Sunday than on any other day in the week! Hundreds of dollars were raised in this way and many a poor Saint owes his deliverance from Babylon to the eggs deposited on Sunday by the feathered layers. — Millennial Star 58:27”
Sources & References
The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star (Manchester, later Liverpool, England, May 1840–1970), 2 July 1896 (Vol. 58, No. 27). https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_the-latter-day-saints-millennial-star_1896-07-02_58_27 (account extracted verbatim from the issue's Internet Archive OCR text; research confidence: high)
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