---
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: "“To President Brigham Young,” *Times and Seasons* 6, no. 3 (February 15, 1845): 815."
printed_title: "TO PRESIDENT BRIGHAM YOUNG:"
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: 815
end_page: 815
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
---

# To President Brigham Young

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BY MISS ELIZA R. SNOW

An important station is truly thine, The great work which he laid the foundation to

And the weight of thy calling can none define: Is unfinished, and resting on thee to do-

Being call'd of the Lord o'er the Twelve to preside, With thy brethren, the Twelve, thou wilt bear it forth

And with them over all of the world beside. To the distant nations of the earth.

Like Elisha of old, when Elijah fled Kings, princes, and nobles will honor thee,

In a chariot of fire, thou hast lost thy head; And thy name will be great on the isles of the sea-

Lost thy head? O no! thou art left to prove The pure light of intelligence thou wilt spread

To the Gods, thy integrity, faith, and love. Will exalt the living and save the dead.

Thou hast gain'd, like Elisha, a rich behest, The great spirit of truth, will direct thy ways;

For the mantle of Joseph seems to rest Generations to come, will repeat thy praise-

Upon thee, while the spirit and pow'r divine, When thy work is completed on earth, thou'lt stand

That inspir'd his heart, is inspiring thine. In thy station appointed at God's right hand.

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.