---
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: 9
published: 1843-03-15
publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor
publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois
language: en
type: article
reference: "“For the Times and Seasons,” *Times and Seasons* 4, no. 9 (March 15, 1843): 144."
printed_title: For the Times and Seasons.
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1843-03-15_4_9
  transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v4n09.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_1843-03-15_4_9
start_page: 144
end_page: 144
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 1843 (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_1843-03-15_4_9
  publication_year: 1843
---

# For the Times and Seasons

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The views of a lady between the hours of baptism and confirmation, on reading the 66 page of the Book of Mormon, 2d chap. 2d book. The first song given her in Zion.

How lustre [luster] shone on every line; The holy priesthood to unfold,

How deep the council, how divine And lead me forth to Israel's fold.

The Spirit testified in me,

Of Joseph's bow, and Judah's tree. To worship God's anointed Son

With whom the priesthood first begun;

Mine eyes have open'd to behold, The "Book of Covenants" to reveal,

The wonders I have never told; The secret of the seven seals.

My nat'ral sight he quickly gave

When rising from the liquid grave. The "Book of Mormon" greater still,

The Jewish records to fulfill;

My useful specks were laid aside Their hidden treasures to unlock,

When I became a wedded bride; And lead forth Joseph like a flock.

For long espoused I have been,

And called Messiah Lord and King, With Moses' rod, and Aaron's too,

To preach the Covenants old and new;

But O! alas, I little knew And in Aaronic grandeur clad

Of the great promise to the Jew; Like Israels Elders though a lad.

And less of Joseph's fruitful bough,

Or of Manassah's horns or how The mighty kingdom to restore

As in the ancient days of yore;

With Ephraims thousands God could bring In vain may babels harlots try

This silly dove to sit and sing- There doctrines false to magnify.

Full twenty five long trying years

I met the tide with all my fears, The prophet and the Spokesman join

To prove the records, both divine;

And would not yield to any priest, The "Book of Mormon" every line

In all the regions of the East; With Judah's record doth combine.

Nor set my name to creed or form,

But stood the fury of their storm The book of Covenants crowns them all

And loudly doth the angels call,

Under a broken Covenant's woe To order all my loyal sons;

Long had I grappled with the foe; My sanctified my chosen ones.

Tost [tossed] like a lonely Autumn leaf

And knew not where to find relief. And like a Grecian Phalanx stand

Until they reach the promis'd land,

Joy to the day-peace to the hour, Who bravely fought and bravely fell

When Zion's Herald came with power; As "old Thermop'læ's" story tells.

January 21, 1838.

The Times and Season, is edited by John Taylor. Printed and published about the first and fifteenth of every month, on the corner of Water and Bain Streets, Nauvoo, Hancock county, Illinois, by John Taylor & Wilford Woodruff

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 John Taylor, editor, Post Paid, or they will not receive attention.