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Show , , - ChUrch , . - . - r j ,,, Section .., , : a" '.11.' b ' or------- rt1kp Ilt... JI, tim J.,-- : frit - SChcutirocnh , e , .. UTAH;MAY 18 , 1940 - -- ' . - - - . . , .. eAll frA I - 1' 11 .. : ::::::... ... bends. Commerce jutted out between With these brief remarks we them, so that it was facing the river' shall submit the Times and Seasons , on three sides to an enlightened public, feeling as-- . N a hot, sticky July day in 1839, Driven from their homes in Ohio sured that it will be hailed as a welresidents of Commerce,Illinois and Missouri, by hostile mobs, a come guest by every lover of free-- group -- I dropped their chores for a few minof Latter-day- . Saints settled in ComBy' C B.. H dom, and receive that utes to read a handbill which had been merce, began --- ALONE? ' the swamps and draining which its merits may demartd, Inept brought to their doors by a manivhom started to build homes"Perhaps," E. ROBINSON God gave to me the gift of birth -all knew. The handbill ;Tad: they we "if D. they C. SMITH (3) probably reasoned, pick And sent me from the courts on- high, PROSPECTUS such ;an undesirable spot to settle in, The of the isatte was remainder the Alone I came unto eartly:we won't be driven from it so quick- - devoted tei extracts members I- - die. The acquainted being from Joseph when leave it I'll Alone withthe scattered- - condition of the Smith's private journal, in which he "The place," wrote Joseph Smith, described the persecutions in Missouri. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Alonebecause no mortal man the and "was anxiety realizing Saints; literally a wilderness. The land - and his confinement in the Liberty, for die or or work mei live Can all of bosoms the iras rests in which the me mostly covered with trees and Missouri jail. plan Can save my soul or help to scattered are abroad, who and much of it was so wet Saints bushes, "Truth Will Prevail," was adopted To reach my immortality. welthe and conditions was of the learn that it with the utmost difficulty as the paper's slogan, to run immedthat a footman could get through, and iately underneath the name plate on fare of the Church, have procured a And so it is with you, my friend and materials and the first page. A typographical error press totally impossible for teams. Comprinting bitter way We each must walk the merce was so unhealthy very few caused it to read in the first issue, will publish a monthly periodical at Of loneliness, till comes the end could live "there, but believing that it "Truth Will Ptevall." this place,tontaining all general in, Of mortal life and Judgment Day. as ' a the become Church; formation POET the LAUREATE respecting place might healthy by also a history of the unparallelled blessing of heaven to the Saints, and Among the faithful . in those days Some power beyond our puny strength no more eligipe place presenting itwas a talented young woman who persecution, which we, as a people Has thus decreed our present life, received in Missouri by order of the -self, I considered it wisdom, to make seemed able to strike off an approprl---- Mrhen it begins and what its length - almost- an attempt to build a city." .(2)-- Executive .of-- that Stateby which ate Nem any -- eccasion, Ahlsltale.afstorm and strife. The influx of new residents con- much in the same manner as Eng. many innocent men and children , were most inhumanly murdered tinued steadily during 1839, and In' land's poet laureate. lier, name was Altho Christ died for --you and me , others dragged from the bosom of We each alone, must journey thru )4,:::x4 :::Km, ',:::,.,,r,r:.'77 ,:: , ,. c - ;;::4'.:' ,... .. r:. ..', That door to which death holds the ' their families, without any process 0 an armed soldiery, and '.. ..:''; ,ptv whatever, by ::.:: :': Key, ,',. --- - ,,,.,,...,-:.:::-;,:,,,,,:.,-; -..: ::::: :. thrust into prison and irons, there .. .01....' ' , .,,,, .. That leads to God and life anew. T .' ::. ....' ,,'-' , , - remaining for a long time gvithout ; , , ' ,s I -were reason the that-dea- th they why TIO knowing have will sting 'Tis thus -- , 7; insulted thustreated ..,:.,.,,,,,;11,,..,..-,..-- For Jesus Christ's great saving power , and houses , plundered lburnedand And the Millenium shall bring , .. ,. , finally, to end the scene of persecuThe glorious Resurrection Hour. tion expel!, as exiles, from the stale, ' the whole soin the winter-seasoYet something .whispers deep withiu ,, ::," ,.::: ciety; - in all, from ten to twelve That tells me God is standing by A-statement of souls! thousand sinfrom , To help ? facts concernktg the foregoing trans- - -Home us our to onaligh. Toguide ...By eitippings- I - - it urrent . I . a OP . . 1 , Al a, SALT LAKE CITY, . tri. .,...' ;7V, 3...,elt ... Parry D. Sorensen (-)- , -- , -- -- -- -- .., , . 1....':':' :,',:;;;-....- -- z .....::. - S .:.. : i -- ' r7..,,,,,,;.., .... ct.----4,..- ... r '.' : ... :.,...:.;,-,r...----- ,,,, ,-, ' n, - - - - I ,.! Pittoos, , actions, will not be uninteresting to ' see the pure princito wish who all be not we need alone so And ples of Republicanism preserved un-- r As down life's thoroughfare we trod violated. For He Is there, If We but see, , The Times and Seasons will If we but give our hand to God! tam n communications from the travBY MELBA ALLEN. elling Elders, from time to time: its " colums will also, frequently be en-I.' Testimonies: ' Few mor faitpromoting testi- - riched with letters from .gentlemen will which in old The residence and printing office of Pres. John Taylor at Nauvo&,-----1- Europe, travelling monies have come our way than the its interest. and the Times and Seasons were published. tvhere the Nauvoo Neighbor following one, which is volunteered by- - greatly augment of the not the intention is pub-It a Lake City, Harry S. Joseph,,of Salt ushers, to admit any thing into this the summer, two men, Ebenezer Rob- - Eliza R. Snow, and she wrote the of the Church. The orig- , inson and Don Carlos Smith, arrived words of many paper which will be calculated to en- inal has been filed in the safe of the hymns sung in Mon, . gender strike or turmoil, neither will - from Far West, Missouri, scene of the by rider a toda.. with politica 'matters, interfere with--.-most recent they Council of the Smith persecutions, .. Joseph Fielding and murders Mobbmgs, cultivate to imprison. wish as is their not it printing press and type. The press of the Twelve, Church Historian. The had spent the better part of a year ment In Missouri gave Miss Snow am-any principle which tends to put testimony reads: pie occasion to strike off - a lengthy people at variance with one another, --- buried in the ground. probably might seem strange to 'It on-- -are that those but rather principles When troops surrounded Far West:: Pc'em entitled, "The Slaughter- the people of )Utah for a n men Shoat happy-iCounty, make 2 on 'November - I - 1838 and arrested --Mormon Church 'to bear teal- this world , and secure unto them----It appeared in the - second more -t- han- thirty leaders of the sourt monyt to a strange happening, to me ' come. that to in eternal Her poems were a regular number. whichIg life, Church, including Joseph Smith, the time and at present a rayster- of TERMS: One Dollar Pe r annum , the Times and Seasons, and feature - - at that president, the press and type were touarstrangeyet ....truemanifestation went ta presa without --advance Issue hardly-ametidher in On of of faith in the doctrine of 'laying 10 subscribfrom her pen. - - something Any person procuring named Davirson. -- When some onhe hands!--was ers, and forwarding us ten dollars. men .werC frequent contributor rele,sell.from e current Church's probabli-thmoney, months later, they up the press Parley ' law, Isador Morris, of 449 East Second Bank current All Like volume, gratis. and took it to Commerce. Among them foremost writer in early days: South Street, Salt Lake City, took me, ,4 notes. of any denomination willbewere Robinson and Smith, the latter Miss Snow, he wrote the words of sevLake of Salt his friend Dr. McLean on subscriptions. Letters received a of brother the president and - eral hymns, but his long suit was the younger City and the latter's brother of De- ' on business must be addressed to tracts aid articles he wrote about the old: 24 only years troit, Michigan, at that time one of the Publishers, POST PAID. new religion. His writings still rank . So It was that the Times and Sea- the best known and noted surgeons in, . ROBINSON & SMITH the best in Church literature. with the United States to visit Mr. Morris - Pratt was very close to the ,Prophet, sons, which was to chronicle an Commerce, Hancock Co., Illinois . old friend, John R. Barnes, at his home ful six years of Church history, got its and his July 1839 11):: scholarly ability was a valu in Kaysville, Utah, then desperately start. Printed on a press that had able asset was issued to the youthful Church Although the prospectus ill. We. arrived there in the evening-in July; the first number of the Times been carried from Kirtland, Ohio, leader, who lacked much formal edu but Mr. Barnes was seemingly in the and Seasons made its appearance in carted all over Missouri, buried in the cation. , last throes of life and lying in bed November.. Reason for the belated - ground, Und then brought to ComAmong the first of Elder Pratt's seemingly unconscious. The two doe debut was not any lack of ambition merce by a group of men just out of to be published In the nesten tors atthe request of Mr4Morris ex; - on the .ni . the editors, .butthe jail, the Times and Seasons made its - - writings -part was a - poem,- amined Mr. Barnes And told us that fact that both were ill with appearance just five months after while the author Nt'as in a squalid fillssimple he could, not live another hour. Then malaria more than four months and originally scheduled. in the house came Bishop Peter Bar- were hardly in condition to be print- ". The first issue, sixteen pages on sourl prison. It appeared In the May 1840 Issue and was entitled, Zion in ton with two EidersThey uttered -- book size sheets, contained a reprint - - -- a Mg - some Captivity; a lamentation by P. P. Pratt prayers and rubbed Mr. Barnes' In those days, Commerce wasn't of the prospectus, an apology to the while chained In Irlson.- -- It told a forehead with what appeared to me as the kind of pjace you'd go for 'your patrons for the tardy appearance, and poignant story of the hardships and oil. In about five minutes Mr. Barnes we's little more than a - set forth its aims in a wordy ,Introhealth;-It Pratt and his opened his eyes, breathed, and in a swamp on the Mississippi, where the duction, which concluded with these sufferings endured by (Continued on Page OW Father of Waters made two sharp 1word c (Continued on Page Four) , , : , - 11 , :' .; , ' , , - non-memb- - Church-Historian'szof- I fice - - -- -- of-t- calcu:Jo he -- - - Creek,--Caidwel- l- -- , --- - - -- n d bur-Fe- - - - - --- Another -- halt-receiveone - -, - , . - . - , '. - 7 - - - . - -- -- - -- and-Seas- Pi , , I 1 P 1 - . -- ons : -- - |