--- title: Times and Seasons description: Issues of 1844 to 1845. 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: 5 number: 10 published: 1844-05-15 publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois language: en type: article reference: "“A MOTHER'S LOVE,” *Times and Seasons* 5, no. 10 (May 15, 1844): 543." printed_title: A MOTHER'S LOVE. source: url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1844-05-15_5_10 transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v5n10.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_1844-05-15_5_10 start_page: 543 end_page: 543 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 1844 (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_1844-05-15_5_10 publication_year: 1844 --- # A MOTHER'S LOVE There is so divine a holiness in the love of a mother, that no matter how the tie that binds her to the child was formed, she becomes as it were, consecrated and sacred, and the past is forgotten, and the world and its harsh verdicts swept away when that love alone is visible and the God who watches over the little one, sheds his smile over the human deputy, in whose tenderness there breathes his own!-Bulwer.