---
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: 23
published: 1841-10-01
publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor
publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois
language: en
type: article
reference: "“Baptism for the Dead,” *Times and Seasons* 2, no. 23 (October 1, 1841): 565."
printed_title: Baptism for the Dead.
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1841-10-01_2_23
  transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v2n23.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_1841-10-01_2_23
start_page: 565
end_page: 565
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_1841-10-01_2_23
  publication_year: 1841
---

# Baptism for the Dead

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By J. H. Johnson.

Else, what shall they do who are baptized for And we for them can be baptized,

The dead, if the dead rise not al all? Why Yes for our friends most dear!

then are they baptized for the dead? That they can with the just be rais'd,

When Gabrials trump they hear.

The glorious gospel light has shone

In this latter day. That they may come with Christ again,

With such intelligence that none When he to earth descends;

From trath [truth] need turn away. A thousand years with him to reign,

And with their earthly friends.

For 'mong things which have been sealed,

And from the world kept hid; Now, O! ye saints, rejoice to day,

The Lord has to his saints revealed, That you can saviors be,

As anciently he did. For all your dead, who will obey

The gospel and be free.

And thro' the Priesthood now restored,

Has even prepar'd the way, Then let us rise without restraint,

Through which the dead may hear his word, And act for those we love;

And all its truths obey. For they are giving their consent,

And wait for us to move.

As Christ to spirits went to preach,

Who were in prison, aid;

So many saints have gone to teach

The gospel to the dead.

[For the Times and Seasons.]