---
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: 14
published: 1845-08-01
publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor
publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois
language: en
type: article
reference: "“The Cap Stone,” *Times and Seasons* 6, no. 14 (August 1, 1845): 991."
printed_title: THE CAP STONE.
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1845-08-01_6_14
  transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v6n14.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_1845-08-01_6_14
start_page: 991
end_page: 991
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_1845-08-01_6_14
  publication_year: 1845
---

# The Cap Stone

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BY W. W. PHELPS.

Have you heard the revelation, As a Judas did the Lord.

Of this latter dispensation, CHORUS-We are a band of brethren, &c.

Which is unto every nation,

O! prepare to meet thy God? And their chief is Sidney Rigdon,

CHORUS -We are a band of brethren, Who's a traitor, base, intriguing,

And we've rear'd the Lord a temple, And will fight at Armageddon,

And the cap stone now is finish'd, When the fire comes down from God.

And we'll sound the news abroad. CHORUS-We are a band of brethren, &c.

Go and publish how Missouri, While the devil such men jostles,

Like a whirlwind in its fury, With his "keys of conquest morsels,

And without a judge or jury, We'll uphold the Twelve apostles,

Drove the saints and split their blood. With authority from God.

CHORUS-We are a band of brethren, &c. CHORUS-We are a band of brethren, &c.

Illinois, where satan flatters, And we'll give the whole world a sample,

Shot the prophets too, as martyrs, Of our faith and works most ample,

And repeal'd our city charters, When we've finished off the temple,

All because we worhip'd God As a dwelling for the Lord.

CHORUS -We are a band of brethren, &c. CHORUS-We are a band of brethren, &c.

Bennett, Law and many others, And we'll feed the saints that's needing,

Have betray'd our honest brothers, And improve our hearts by weeding,

To destroy our wives and mothers, Till we make Nauvoo as Eden,

Where the saints can meet the Lord.

CHORUS-We are a band of brethren, &c.

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.