--- title: Times and Seasons description: Issues of 1845 to 1846. 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: 6 number: 1 published: 1845-01-15 publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois language: en type: article reference: "“Times and Seasons,” *Times and Seasons* 6, no. 1 (January 15, 1845): 776." printed_title: TIMES AND SEASONS. source: url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1845-01-15_6_1 transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v6n01.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_1845-01-15_6_1 start_page: 776 end_page: 776 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_1845-01-15_6_1 publication_year: 1845 --- # Times and Seasons CITY OF NAUVOO. JANUARY 15, 1845. VOLUME VI. This number commences volume sixth, and as the Lord has seen fit in his infinite wisdom to bless our labors thus far, we pray, and we earnestly solicit the saints to pray, that the same blessings, and success may crown our labors throughout the current year. From six members, we have almost miraculously grown to a kingdom of Latter-Day saints. In the midst of persecution, false brethren, perils and death, we have kept the faith delivered to us; and, notwithstanding, after we had built an house to the most high, and were compelled to abandon the enjoyment of it, and now gone on to build another in Nauvoo, (which we hope and pray may be ready for the service of God, in the course of this year, or early in the next;) and notwithstanding wicked men have martyred our Prophet and Patriarch; and notwithstanding some of our numbers have turned away, and left the gathering and the 'patterns' yet we are determined to press on towards the mark of the prize of our high calling, knowing that united we prosper, divided they perish! We make no special promises in the Times and Seasons, because we mean it shall be its own witness of its utility among the saints.-We have the revelations, we have the principal authorities, and we have some experience, all of which combined, will enable us to publish sound doctrine, correct principles, and what is more valuable than diamonds,-'truth.' With this intention and a heart beating constant for eternal life, we expect the patronage and confidence of such as wish to be saved, if not the good will of all honest men.