---
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: 24
published: 1845-01-01
publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor
publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois
language: en
type: article
reference: "“Go Ye Swift Messengers,” *Times and Seasons* 5, no. 24 (January 1, 1845): 762."
printed_title: GO YE SWIFT MESSENGERS.
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1845-01-01_5_24
  transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v5n24.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_1845-01-01_5_24
start_page: 762
end_page: 762
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 1845 (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_1845-01-01_5_24
  publication_year: 1845
---

# Go Ye Swift Messengers

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Elders W. Woodruff and family, in company with Elders H. Clark, and D. Jones and their families, and Elders Milton Holmes and Leonard Hardy, sailed yesterday from this port, in the packet ship John R. Skiddy, for :Liverpool, England, there to commence their labors in the ministry. May the God of Israel send them a smooth sea and a fair wind.-N. Y. Prophet of Dec. 7.

(->) We are happy to give the above information. It is gratifying to thus witness the servants of the Lord, go forth to the nations of the earth, to call the inhabitants thereof to the supper of the Lamb-God bless them.