--- 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: "“To the Churches Abroad and Near By,” *Times and Seasons* 3, no. 21 (September 1, 1842): 909." printed_title: TO THE CHURCHES ABROAD AND NEAR BY. 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: 909 end_page: 909 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 --- # To the Churches Abroad and Near By As many false reports are circulated to delay the building of the Temple of God at Nauvoo, we take this public method of stating that the saints are constantly engaged in rearing this great house for their salvation, by tithing and donations--according to the commandments; and in order that the work may progress more speedily; we call upon the churches abroad and near by, to bring or send us their tithes or donations, that we may be enabled to go on prosperously and finish it in an acceptable time to the Lord. The work hands upon this house need provisions and clothes, and the brethren, these plentiful times, have these things and others means, and can, if they will, help us. Brethren remember the commands of the Lord and help fulfil [fulfill] them. ALPHEUS CUTLER, REYNOLDS CAHOON, ELIAS HIGBEE, (Building Committee). Nauvoo, Aug. 25, 1842.