Times and Seasons was a 19th-century Latter Day Saint periodical published monthly or twice-monthly at Nauvoo

Nauvoo, Illinois

Nauvoo is a small city in Hancock County, Illinois, United States. Although the population was just 1,063 at the 2000 census, and despite being difficult to reach due to its location in a remote corner of Illinois, Nauvoo attracts large numbers of visitors for its historic importance and its...

, Illinois

Illinois

Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...

, from November 1839 to February 15, 1846. The publication was the first to include such significant Latter Day Saint documents as The Wentworth Letter

The Wentworth Letter

The "Wentworth letter" was a letter written in 1842 by Latter Day Saint founder Joseph Smith, Jr. to "Long" John Wentworth, editor and proprietor of the Chicago Democrat...

, the King Follett Discourse

King Follett Discourse

The King Follett discourse, or King Follett sermon, was an address delivered in Nauvoo, Illinois by Joseph Smith, president and founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, on April 7, 1844, less than three months before his assassination...

, the Book of Abraham

Book of Abraham

The Book of Abraham is a 1835 work by Joseph Smith, Jr. that he said was based on Egyptian papyri purchased from a traveling mummy exhibition. According to Smith, the book was "a translation of some ancient records....purporting to be the writings of Abraham, while he was in Egypt, called the Book...

, the personal history of Joseph Smith, Jr., and the announcement of the assassination of Joseph and Hyrum Smith

Hyrum Smith

Hyrum Smith was an American religious leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the original church of the Latter Day Saint movement. He was the older brother of the movement's founder, Joseph Smith, Jr....

.

Initially, the publication was edited by Ebenezer Robinson and Don Carlos Smith

Don Carlos Smith

Don Carlos Smith was the youngest brother of Joseph Smith, Jr. and a leader, missionary, and periodical editor in the early days of the Latter Day Saint movement....

 (a brother of Joseph Smith, Jr.). After the death of D.C. Smith in 1841, Joseph Smith, Jr. himself became the chief editor, assisted by John Taylor

John Taylor (1808-1887)

John Taylor was the third president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1880 to 1887. He is the only president of the LDS Church to have been born outside of the United States....

. In November 1842, Taylor became the principal editor, assisted by Willard Richards

Willard Richards

Willard Richards was an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and served as Second Counselor in the First Presidency to church president Brigham Young in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1847 until his death.Willard Richards was born in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, to...

. The motto of the paper was "Truth will prevail".

Times & Seasons

Times & Seasons, An Onymous Mormon Blog

Times & Seasons, An Onymous Mormon Blog is a multi-author weblog featuring commentary and discussion especially of contemporary Mormon culture, thought and current events...

 is also the name of an LDS-themed blog which was one of the earliest blogs in the so-called Bloggernacle

Bloggernacle

The Mormon blogosphere is the Mormon portion of the blogosphere...

 or community of Mormon blogs.

See also

• Evening and Morning Star
  Evening and Morning Star
  The Evening and the Morning Star was an early Latter Day Saint periodical published monthly in Independence, Missouri, from June 1832 to July 1833, and then in Kirtland, Ohio, from December 1833 to September 1834...
  
  
• Messenger and Advocate
  Messenger and Advocate
  Latter Day Saints' Messenger and Advocate was an early Latter Day Saint periodical published monthly in Kirtland, Ohio from October 1834 to September 1837...
  
  
• The Elders' Journal
  Elders' Journal
  The Elders' Journal of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints was an early Latter Day Saint periodical edited by Don Carlos Smith. Two issues Vol. 1 No. 1 and Vol. 1. No. 2 were published in Kirtland, Ohio in 1837. The remaining two issues Vol 1. No. 3 and Vol 1. No...
  
  
• Millennial Star
  Millennial Star
  The Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star was the longest continuously published periodical of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, being printed from 1840 until 1970....
  
  
• Robert B. Thompson
  Robert B. Thompson
  Robert Blashel Thompson was an associate of Joseph Smith, Jr., a Danite and leader in the Latter Day Saint movement, and an official historian of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints....
  
  
• List of Latter Day Saint periodicals

External links

• Times and Seasons online source (HTML)
• Times and Seasons online source (scanned PDF) (vol. 1)
• Times and Seasons online source (scanned PDF) (vol. 2)
• Times and Seasons online source (scanned PDF) (vol. 3)
• Times and Seasons online source (scanned PDF) (vol. 4)
• Times and Seasons online source (scanned PDF) (vol. 5)
• Times and Seasons online source (scanned PDF) (vol. 6)