---
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: 10
published: 1845-06-01
publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor
publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois
language: en
type: article
reference: "“Friendship, Love, and Truth,” *Times and Seasons* 6, no. 10 (June 1, 1845): 927."
printed_title: FRIENDSHIP, LOVE, AND TRUTH.
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1845-06-01_6_10
  transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v6n10.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_1845-06-01_6_10
start_page: 927
end_page: 927
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_1845-06-01_6_10
  publication_year: 1845
---

# Friendship, Love, and Truth

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BY JAMES MONTGOMERY.

When Friendship, Love, and Truth abound, His reverend front adorning,

Among a band of brothers, He looks like Winter turned to May,

The cup of joy goes gaily round, Night softened into morning.

Each shares the bliss of others. How grand in age, how fair in youth,

Sweet roses grace this thorny way, Are holy Friendship, Love, and Truth.

Along this vale of sorrow;

The flowers that shed their leaves to -day, From these delightful fountains flow

Shall bloom again to-morrow. Ambrosial rills of pleasure:

How grand in age, how fair in youth, Can man desire, can heaven bestow,

Are holy Friendship, Love, and Truth! A more resplendent treasure?

Adorned with gems so richly bright,

On halcyon wings our moments pass, We'll form a constellation,

Life's cruel cares beguiling; Where every star, with modest light,

Old Time lays down his scythe and glass, Shall gild his proper station.

In gay good humor smiling; How grand in age, how fair in youth,

With ermine beard and forelock gray Are holy friendship, Love, and Truth!

The Times and Season, Is Printed and Published about the first and fifteenth of every month, on the corner of Main and Kimball 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.