---
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: 15
published: 1844-08-15
publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor
publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois
language: en
type: article
reference: "“To Dr. Willard Richards,” *Times and Seasons* 5, no. 15 (August 15, 1844): 623."
printed_title: TO DR. WILLARD RICHARDS.
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1844-08-15_5_15
  transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v5n15.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_1844-08-15_5_15
start_page: 623
end_page: 623
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_1844-08-15_5_15
  publication_year: 1844
---

# To Dr. Willard Richards

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A word to the favor'd "two minutes in jail," O tell it ye saints, while eternities add,

When the fury of men, and the vengeance of hell, Where the righteous are joy'd, or the alarm'd,

Sent a shower of balls, like a shower of hail,- That amid all the carnage at Carthage, so bad,

And the mightiest prophets but breathed-"FAREWELL!" His body, as VEIL'D by the Lord, was unharm

When the answer was silent-to "what shall I do?" Ah! error's a phantom, but truth is a rod-

When there Brother Taylor lay weltering in gore; Hence onward these tidings shall pass round the globe,

When the heralds of death rush'd the broad way to view, That RICHARDS was "mark'd" with the martyrs of God,

And horribly glanc'd-YOU'RE THE LAST OF THE FOUR! Yet spared without even a hole on his robe!

The Times and Seasons,

Is 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,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

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.