--- 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: 9 published: 1845-05-15 publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois language: en type: article reference: "“Mormon Proverbs,” *Times and Seasons* 6, no. 9 (May 15, 1845): 900." printed_title: MORMON PROVERBS. source: url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1845-05-15_6_9 transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v6n09.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_1845-05-15_6_9 start_page: 900 end_page: 900 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_1845-05-15_6_9 publication_year: 1845 --- # Mormon Proverbs The globe lamp, suspended in the heavens is the best and cheapest light in the world. A wise man will prefer it to any other; but a fool will sleep while the morning sun shines, and light a lamp when it goes down. This is like cutting cloth from one end of a piece, and sewing it on to the other to make it longer. He that sleeps when the sun shines, and lights his lamp when it does not, despises the lamp of the Lord, and taxes his eyes and purse for nought [naught]. Industry goes hand in hand with godliness.-It is an honor to be an agriculturist, for such was our Father in heaven. He performed the first planting on this earth. It is good also to be a tailor, for our Father in heaven was the first tailor on this planet.-He made coats for Adam and Eve, when they were young and inexperienced, and thus clothed them. It is good also, to write, for our Father in heaven was a writer. He wrote with his own finger on the tables of stone. To build ships, temples and houses, is also godliness, for God was a master workman in all these branches of industry. He gave the pattern of the first ship to Noah; and he was the architect of the tabernacle of Moses, and of the temple of Solomon. A wise man will pattern after his order; but fools will erect synagogues after the imagination of their own heart. Great is the mystery of iniquity, and error; but all truth is simple, and easy to be understood. "Truth is a knowledge of things as they are and were, and are to come." All truth is independent in its own sphere.-Its laws are omnipotent, eternal, and unchangeable. "Intelligence, or the light of truth never was created, neither indeed can be." Truth is light-light is spirit-spirit is life. Truth, light, spirit, is the law of life and motion, by which all things are governed, and by which they move and have a being. Truth will justify. Truth will sanctify. Truth will purify. Truth will exalt man to the throne of heaven and crown him with eternal life and dominion in the presence of Jehovah. The truth comes to man by means of higher intelligences; by the voice of God-by the ministering of angels, and by the Holy Spirit of prophecy and revelation. In all your gettings, get truth, for this will give you everlasting life, and crown you with riches and honors, which shall never fade away.