--- 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: "“Friendly Caution-Mormonism!-From the Manx Liberal, (a paper published in the City of Douglass, Isle of Man,) of Oct. 31st, 1840,” *Times and Seasons* 2, no. 9 (March 1, 1841): 331–332." printed_title: Friendly Caution-Mormonism!-From the Manx Liberal, (a paper published in the City of Douglass, Isle of Man,) of Oct. 31st, 1840. 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: 331 end_page: 332 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 --- # Friendly Caution-Mormonism!-From the Manx Liberal, (a paper published in the City of Douglass, Isle of Man,) of Oct. 31st, 1840 To the Editor of the Manx Liberal- Sir, I feel rather surprised and chagrined that that modern delusion, viz: "Mormonism," should have made such rapid strides in this town, hitherto considered exempt from the many systems of irreligious creeds which abound in England, America, and elsewhere. I had thought that the powerful and argumentative addresses of the dissenting ministers would have checked such a gross piece of imposition in its infancy, and thus prevented the great mass of our towns people from becoming the dupes of designing knaves, "and being led away by every wind of doctrine;" Above all, I imagined the two pamphlets issued by that holy, religious and devout man of God, Mr. Hays, Wesleyan minister, (to which connection I have the happiness and honor to belong,) would have been quite sufficient to prove the falacy [fallacy] of such a system, and prevent its further spread-but sir, alas! alas! the case is quite the reverse, numbers continually flock to the Wellington room and listen with eagerness to the principles there acvocated [advocated]; the members of our society (Methodist) seem to be most conspicuous in sanctioning and premoting [promoting] this vile and abomable [abominable] dictrine [doctrine]. Oh, sir, the results to our connection will be dreadful! the havoc tremendous! just think of the majority of our leading and intelligent men aiding and abetting a cause of this discription [description]! Oh sir! lamentable and heart rending to witness the beaming countenances and smiles of approbation dlsplayed [displayed] recently at Taylor's meeting! I could innumerate [enumerate] a host of our members who regularly attend those anti-christian meetings-but I will just mention with your permission the names of a few who attended one of the last meetings. (Here followed a list ofnames [of names]) O Mr. Editor! I quake for the consequences-such a wholesale conversion to Mormonism was never before witnessed in any town or country: what will become of our society? what will become of our class meetings? what will become of our brethren in the faith? and above all, what will become of poor Mr. Hays, that nice and humble man, who so nobly stood forward to expose the errors of the Mormon system-God bless him, and preserve him from want! but Mr. Editor, what makes the case worse, is, that a rumor is prevalent that all these pious men are to be BAPTIZED! that is duly Immerced [Immersed] the salt water of Douglas Bay, by that abominable creature, Taylor.!! surely, there must be something enchanting about the vile man-IMMERSION!! (my hand shakes while I write) and in winter too, Oh sir! the though [thought] chills my very soul,-surely this American dipper intends to drown them-he can have no other object in view, therefore, brethren of the Methodist society, beware!! drowning is not to be envied and that too in your sins-besides what would the venerable John Wesley (if he were alive) say to such conduct? what will the Conference say? and what will the world say? I leave these questions to yourselves to answer,-in conclusion brethren, I recomend [recommend] you to read much, learn and inwardly digest the things which belong to your eternal peace, and listen no longer to the follies of men. A STANCH WESLEYAN. Duke street, 29th Oct. To the Ed. of the Times & Seasons:- Sir, I have forwarded you the above for too [two] reasons, first, because it brings the cheering intelligence that truth is onward in its march and making mighty conquests in the kingdom of error; and second, because the language of the writer so strikingly reminds me of the sayings of the prophets, when writing upon the subject of the latter days. The writer expresses great fear for the flock, and the Prophet Jeremiah appears to have foretold that they would, and the reason why, Jer. 25: 34, 36, "Howl ye shephards [shepherds] and cry, and wallow yourselves in the ashes ye principal of the flock for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersion are accomplished and ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel, and the shepherds shall have no way to flee nor the principal of the flock to escape; a voice of the cry of the shepherds, and an howling of the principal of the flock shall be heard, for the Lord hath spoiled their pasture'. John in the 18 chapter of his revelation has told us that the merchants of the earth would weep and mourn, and the fruits that they should lust after should depart from them, and all things dainty and goodly should depart from them and they should find them no more at all, that they would stand afar off weeping and say "Alas alas!" but all their combined efforts to stop the progress of the work of the Lord in the last days will prove unaffecnal [ineffectual], for "the Lord will rise up as in mount Perazin and be wroth as in the valey [valley] of Gibeon, that he may do his work his strange work, and bring to pass his act his strange act." though the heathen rage and the people imagine vain things (as in the drowning above vainly imagined) yet the work of the last days will roll onward, for the arm of the Almighty is to propel it; though the Saints are persecuted afflicted, and scattered, the effect will be like whipping a mustard stalk when its seed is fully ripe, it will take root and grow, and spring up and thrive in every clime, till every nation, kindred, tongue, and people shall hear the fullness of the gospel-the testimony of the Book of Mormon: and my feeble efforts shall be exerted to impel its progress, by the help of the Almighty G. W. GEE