---
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: 21
published: 1842-09-01
publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor
publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois
language: en
type: article
reference: "“Invocation,” *Times and Seasons* 3, no. 21 (September 1, 1842): 910."
printed_title: INVOCATION.
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1842-09-01_3_21
  transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v3n21.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_1842-09-01_3_21
start_page: 910
end_page: 910
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_1842-09-01_3_21
  publication_year: 1842
---

# Invocation

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BY MISS E. R. SNOW.

O God! thou God that rules on high,- The work is thine-thy promise sure-

Bow down thy ear to me; Though earth and hell oppose;

Listen, O listen to my cry- Roll, roll it onward and secure

Hear thou, my fervent plea. Thy prophet from his foes.

Rebuke the heartless, wicked clan O hide him in they secret fold

That fain would do us harm; When on his path they tred [tread];

Protect us from the power of man, Safe as Elijah who of old,

By thy Almighty arm. Was by the ravens fed.

Let unseen watchman wait around Bring his accusers' deeds to light,

To shield thy servant's head- And give thy people rest;

Let all his enemies be found Eternal God! gird on thy might

Caught in the net they spread. And succor the oppressed.

Thy grace, like prairie dews distill'd,

To all his needs apply;

And let his upright heart be filled

With spirit from on high, August 13th, 1842.