---
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: 17
published: 1842-07-01
publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor
publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois
language: en
type: article
reference: "“The Female Relief Society of Nauvoo,” *Times and Seasons* 3, no. 17 (July 1, 1842): 846."
printed_title: THE FEMALE RELIEF SOCIETY OF NAUVOO.
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1842-07-01_3_17
  transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v3n17.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_1842-07-01_3_17
start_page: 846
end_page: 846
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 1842 (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_1842-07-01_3_17
  publication_year: 1842
---

# The Female Relief Society of Nauvoo

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What is it?

It is an Institution form'd to bless To stamp a vetoing impress on each move

The poor, the widow, and the fatherless- That Virtue's present dictates disapprove-

To clothe the naked and the hungry feed, To put the tattler's coinage, scandal, down,

And in the holy paths of virtue, lead. And make corruption feel its with'ring frown.

To seek out sorrow, grief and mute despair, To give instruction, where instruction's voice

And light the lamp of hope eternal there- Will guide the feet and make the heart rejoice-

To try the strength of consolation's art To turn the wayward from their recklessness,

By breathing comfort to the mourning heart. And lead them in the ways of happiness.

To chase the clouds that shade the aspect, where It is an Order, fitted and design'd

Distress presides; and wake up pleasures there- To meet the wants of body, and of mind-

With open heart extend the friendly hand To seek the wretched, in their long abode-

To hail the stranger, from a distant land. Supply their wants, and raise their hearts to God.

E. R. SNOW.

Elder Andrew L. Lamoreaux is requested to come to Nauvoo, to answer to certain charges that are preferred against him.

The Times and Seasons, Is edited, printed and published about the first and fifteenth of every month, on the corner of Water and Bain Streets, Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, by JOSEPH SMITH

TERMS.-TWO DOLLARS per annum, payable in all cases in advance. Any person procuring five new subscribers, and forwarding us Ten Dollars current money, shall receive one volume gratis. All letters must be addressed to Joseph Smith, publisher, POST PAID, or they will not receive attention.