---
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: 21
published: 1844-11-15
publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor
publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois
language: en
type: article
reference: "“To Elder W. Woodruff,” *Times and Seasons* 5, no. 21 (November 15, 1844): 719."
printed_title: TO ELDER W. WOODRUFF.
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1844-11-15_5_21
  transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v5n21.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_1844-11-15_5_21
start_page: 719
end_page: 719
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_1844-11-15_5_21
  publication_year: 1844
---

# To Elder W. Woodruff

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BY RACHAEL ROBINSON.

Thou art welcome, O thou chosen, You have gone at his bidding

As dew and sun to flowers, To fulfil [fulfill] his high behest,

Again in pure devotion, And at his glorious wedding

Thy spirit kindles ours; Thou wilt be an honored guest.

Sincere, unfeigned the greeting

Which hails thy kind return, Blest herald of salvation,

And at this happy meeting Bearer of joyful news

Our joyous bosoms burn. To every Gentile nation

And long rejected Jews.

Thou art a faithful servant; We thank Him who hath sent thee

Yea, more; thou art a son, To proclaim His truth and love-

With spirit pure and fervent, For the talents He hath lent thee,

Thou thy Savior's will hast done. Thou dost faithfully improve.

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.