---
title: Times and Seasons
description: Issues of 1840 to 1841.
authors:
  - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
editors:
  - Ebenezer Robinson
  - Don Carlos Smith
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
  - Taylor, John
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - newspaper
  - times-and-seasons
  - nauvoo
  - nineteenth-century
periodical: Times and Seasons
volume: 2
number: 18
published: 1841-07-15
publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor
publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois
language: en
type: article
reference: "“For the Times and Seasons,” *Times and Seasons* 2, no. 18 (July 15, 1841): 482."
printed_title: For the Times and Seasons.
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1841-07-15_2_18
  transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v2n18.htm), with its page breaks; this Internet Archive scan is the reference copy (its OCR was used only as a witness for OCR repair)
  identifier: per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1841-07-15_2_18
start_page: 482
end_page: 482
curator_note: A Mormon newspaper published by the church in Nauvoo; included for historical study. Inclusion does not imply endorsement.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1841 (Nauvoo, Illinois); published before 1931, so public domain in the United States
  source: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1841-07-15_2_18
  publication_year: 1841
---

# For the Times and Seasons

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By J. H. Johnsons.

"The wise shall understand."-Daniel.

Amazed with wonder! I look round Or prove that Christ was not the Lord

To see most people of our day, Because Peter cursed and swore?

Reject the glorious gospel sound, Or Book of Mormon not his word

Because the simple turn away. Because denied, by Oliver?

Or does it prove there is no time, Or prove, that Joseph Smith is false

Because some watches will not go? Because apostates say tis so?

But does it prove there is no crime Or prove, that God, no man exalts

Because not punished here below? Because from priests such doctrines flow?

Or can it prove no gems remain, O, no! the wise will surely say;

Because some fools, throw there's away? No proof unto the man that's wise,

Or can it prove no king can reign Then O! dig deep ye wise to-day;

Because some subject wont obey? And soon the truth will be your prize.

Or prove the gospel was not true Not like the fool who chanc'd to see,

Because old Paul the Saints could kill? The Saint forsake his heavenly course,

Because the Jews its author slew, And turn to sin and vanity-

And now reject their Saviour [Savior] still? Then cries your "scheme is all a farce."