--- 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: 17 published: 1845-11-15 publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois language: en type: article reference: "“Offences [Offenses] Must Come,” *Times and Seasons* 6, no. 17 (November 15, 1845): 1029." printed_title: OFFENCES [OFFENSES] MUST COME. source: url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1845-11-15_6_17 transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v6n17.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_1845-11-15_6_17 start_page: 1029 end_page: 1029 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_1845-11-15_6_17 publication_year: 1845 --- # Offences [Offenses] Must Come The Savior, clothed with the authority of the priesthood, was not slow to acquaint his disciples, and advertise the world what would take place in the last days. Matthew records one of his sayings thus: "Wo unto the world because of offences [offenses]! for it must needs be that offences [offenses] come; but wo to that man by whom the offence [offense] cometh! Now apostates and people will conspire to fulfil [fulfill] this saying: And to show it we have only to quote their own sayings and doings. The apostates will hazard their lives and stop the spread of truth, and frustrate the gathering. The greedy world, swallow their falsehoods and enter into the secret, and join their honor together to persecute and crush the saints, because they worship God according to the dictates of their own consciences, and so the offences [offenses] come. We cannot better show this principle, than by copying from the Illinois State Register, and a New York paper, the following:-