---
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: "“The Spirit of God,” *Times and Seasons* 3, no. 21 (September 1, 1842): 910."
printed_title: THE SPIRIT OF GOD.
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
---

# The Spirit of God

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BY W. W. PHELPS.

The prospects of life, on the earth are dear, The glory of earth is sublime and grand,

While fortune to youth, or to age seems near; When spring lends her charms, and the zephyr bland,

While time gives a moment new scenes to scan, Perfumed with odours [odors] from ev'ry lawn,

Or hope holds a laurel afar for man: Salutes us with joy as she passes on:

Yet one better blessing than these is given- Yet one thing is sweeter than spring's soft breath-

The Spirit of God as a guide to heaven. The spirit of God in the hour of death.

The fame of the world is immensely great, The sun, O the sun! what a world of light?

Where wealth rides in splendor, and art in state; The moon from his fountain can lamp the night,

Where pearls from the ocean do shine in crowns; And comets in splendor, as spirit cars,

And gold from the mines with the rich abounds: May luminate heaven, amid the stars:

Yet one thing is richer than wealth or art- Yet one thing is greater than all we see-

The spirit of God to the pure in heart. The Spirit of God fills eternity.