--- title: Times and Seasons description: Issues of 1841 to 1842. 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: 3 number: 1 published: 1841-11-15 publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois language: en type: article reference: "“Nauvoo Ensign and Zarahemla Standard,” *Times and Seasons* 3, no. 1 (November 15, 1841): 585." printed_title: NAUVOO ENSIGN AND ZARAHEMLA STANDARD source: url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1841-11-15_3_1 transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v3n01.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_1841-11-15_3_1 start_page: 585 end_page: 585 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_1841-11-15_3_1 publication_year: 1841 --- # Nauvoo Ensign and Zarahemla Standard Since the death of our much esteemed brother, D. C. Smith, nothing has been said in the Times and Seasons, about publishing the above paper. As the proposals for publishing that paper, were made by the former Editors, who have since departed this life, we, having a multitude of business upon our hands, at the time of entering upon the duties of publisher and editor of this paper, deemed it proper to remain silent on the subject of the Standard, until we were prepared to put it into succesful [successful] operation, or abandon the project for the present. We now inform our friends that we have abandoned the idea of publishing the weekly paper, as the type, and materials ordered for it, have never been forwarded to us, and we do not feel disposed to advance $400, or $500, in these hard times, the amount required to be invested to do it justice. Those who have subscribed, and paid their subscription to us, can have their money credited on the Times and Seasons' book, or refunded to them, as they may direct. The brethren are hereby notified, that our well beloved brother, Hyrum Smith, Patriarch of the church, has erected a comfortable office, opposite his dwelling house, where himself together with his scribe and recorder (James Sloan,) will attend regulary [regularly] every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, during the entire day, or upon any other day, if urgent circumstances require it, to perform the duties of his high and holy calling. A copy of the blessings can be received immediately after being pronounced, so that the brethren who live at a distance can have it to take with them.