--- 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: 3 published: 1845-02-15 publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois language: en type: article reference: "“Signs in the Old World,” *Times and Seasons* 6, no. 3 (February 15, 1845): 811." printed_title: SIGNS IN THE OLD WORLD. source: url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1845-02-15_6_3 transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v6n03.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_1845-02-15_6_3 start_page: 811 end_page: 811 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_1845-02-15_6_3 publication_year: 1845 --- # Signs in the Old World The symptoms of disquietude, division, and jealousy, are beginning to manifest themselves among the people of the old world, as well as in the United States. The annexed sketch, taken from the 'Edinburg Weekly Register,' is not the only sign that appears in the east as a harbinger of the utter abolishment of religious and political compacts. Such events are in strict accordance with Mormon belief, Mormon philosophy, Mormon prophecy, and eternal truth. The world waxes old as a garment, moth-eaten, and the moment it is moved for examination, that instant it begins to fall to pieces.-The leaven in the world, now working in the hearts of the children of men, will ferment, and continue to ferment, until the kingdoms of the whole earth, pass off as the dream of a night vision. God's will be done, and man freed from the bondage of men. So hear what the Register says:-