---
title: Times and Seasons
description: Issues of 1842 to 1843.
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: 4
number: 1
published: 1842-11-15
publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor
publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois
language: en
type: article
reference: "“The Mote and Beam, by Mrs. Z. Porter,” *Times and Seasons* 4, no. 1 (November 15, 1842): 16."
printed_title: THE MOTE AND BEAM, by MRS. Z. PORTER.
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1842-11-15_4_1
  transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v4n01.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_1842-11-15_4_1
start_page: 16
end_page: 16
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_1842-11-15_4_1
  publication_year: 1842
---

# The Mote and Beam, by Mrs. Z. Porter

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"Judge not that ye be not judged."

Come hither brother-I descry The being who, self righteous grown-

A naughty mote, within thine eye- To censure and to scandal prone,

To pluck it out I fain would try, Marks others faults nor mends his own,

And mend, thy clouded vision. Is a vexatious elf.

Thank ye my friend, 't would wiser seem, Like fabled frog, who did report

If thou would'st pull the pond'rous beam He'd cure disease of ev'ry sort-

From thine own eye, and thus redeem Should meet the same deserved retort

Thyself from much derision. "Physician heal; thyself.