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Show 184 social activities and progress in intellectual affairs benefitted the entire mission. She entertained... missionaries on their journeys both to and from Europe and South America. She gave public lectures on cultural and literary subjects. At home [in Salt Lake City] she [had previously] organized and presided over the Friendship Circle, the oldest cultural and social club in the church.13 As a mission home matron, Margaret taught: "A woman is no better than her husband. So if you are truly wise you will see that your husband becomes someone in the image of Christ." She also instructed: "Keep abreast of your husband's work. Learn to be a con- 14 genial listener." There were strong indications that this well-seasoned marital relationship was tremendously satisfying to Roberts. He said of Margaret during that time, "All that pleased her was precious to 15 me." Margaret, too, seemed to be garnering rich treasure in the harvest season of her life, as indicated in what transpired when she became ill in the spring of 1926. She contracted a cold which rapidly found its way into her lungs. It must be remembered that this was before antibiotics made their appearance. Margaret's medical sense told her that, having contracted a pneumonia in her 76th year, she was not likely to survive it. Having talked her husband into letting her stay on in the mission, in the few days that remained to her, she organized her affairs for a sweet and peaceful exit from her mortal life. In any cemetery, a dedicated headstone reader can infer much from the bare bones of names and dates inscribed upon them. Maggie and some of her people are memorialized in the silent record of the |