---
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: 9
published: 1841-03-01
publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor
publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois
language: en
type: article
reference: "“For the Times & Seasons,” *Times and Seasons* 2, no. 9 (March 1, 1841): 341."
printed_title: For the Times & Seasons.
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1841-03-01_2_9
  transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v2n09.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_1841-03-01_2_9
start_page: 341
end_page: 341
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_1841-03-01_2_9
  publication_year: 1841
---

# For the Times & Seasons

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Straight is the gate, and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it."-Matt. 7:14

When I espous'd the cause of truth, With purpose fix'd, we must presume

The holy spirit, from on high, An onward course, with steadfast aim;

Promply (Promptly) instructed me, forsooth, And keep perfection's mark in view,

To lay my youthful prospects by. Reckless, of grandeur, ease and fame.

I saw along the "narrow way" Alas! for some, who lately shone

An ordeal, which the saints must meet Resplendent, like the orbs on high:

To gain the prise (prize): I therefore lay Who're waning like yon late full-moon,

My earthly all, at Jesus' feet. That now seems verging from the sky!

My life committed to his care, Can man secure the great reward,

With food and raiment I'm content; And from thy holy precepts stray?

While with the "faithful," I share Take not thy spirit from me, Lord!

The glorious blessings, God has sent. But keep me in the "narrow way."

Who, thinks beneath life's golden sky, Oh! let me never never prise (prize),

To reach the upper court of God! Thy favor, less than earthly good;

Who, can the christian armor ply, Nor thy prophetic voice despise,

In lifes gay pathway, smooth and broad? Like those that perished in the flood!

ELIZA R. SNOW.