--- 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: 16 published: 1844-09-01 publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois language: en type: article reference: "“The Wine Cup of Fury,” *Times and Seasons* 5, no. 16 (September 1, 1844): 635–636." printed_title: THE WINE CUP OF FURY. source: url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1844-09-01_5_16 transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v5n16.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_1844-09-01_5_16 start_page: 635 end_page: 636 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_1844-09-01_5_16 publication_year: 1844 --- # The Wine Cup of Fury There is a solemn idea contained in the command of the Lord to Jeremiah: 'To take [take] the wine cup of his fury at his hand, and cause all the nations to whom I send thee, to drink it. This awful command has yet to be executed, 'for the slain of the Lord' has never been 'from one end of the earth to the other.' If this generation is not the one for the inhabitants of the earth 'to drink and be drunken, and spue [spew] and fall to rise no more;' let some divinely authenticated servant of the Lord say when it will be, for it must come. On reflection, we think Pollock's words for Death, in his 'Course of Time,' comes very near a reality. He says: "Earth's cup Is poisoned: her renown most infamous; Her gold, seem as it may, is really dust; Her titles, slanderous names; her praise reproach; Her strength, an idiot's boast; her wisdom blind; Her gain, eternal loss; her hope, a dream; Her love, her friendship, enmity with God; Her promises, a lie; her smile, a harlot's; Her beauty, paint, and rotten within; her pleasures; Deadly assassins masked; her laughter, grief; Her breasts, the sting of Death; ; her total sum, Her all, most utter vanity; and all Her lovers mad; insane most grieviously [grievously]; And most insane, because they know it not."