| 663 scriptures, and acquire the knowledge of the Lord, become heirs of the kingdom, and, guided by the Holy Spirit, which is a never failing promise to the saints, they will walk in all the commandments of the Lord blameless, in thanksgiving forever.
Brethren, if you want your children to be useful, industrious, temperate, humane, meek, and charitable, teach them so; if you want them to be prayerful, watchful, and godly, teach them so; and if you want them saved in the celestial kingdom, teach them faithfully the doctrines of that kingdom, and they will soon come to the day, that they will grow up without sin unto salvation, and walk with God where the wicked will not trouble.
TIMES AND SEASONS.
CITY OF NAUVOO,
SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1812.
TO OUR FRIENDS.
I announce, with pleasure, the fact that I have secured the services of Elder Gustavus Hills, as assistant Editor to the Times and Seasons. Having entered into the printing business, in its various branches, and upon an extensive scale-also, having successfully established the stereotyping and book-binding business, all to be conducted under my own supervision, has rendered it highly necessary that some such arrangement should be made, as it is almost impossible for one person to do justice to this paper, and attend to all the varied duties consequent to an establishment of this kind.
I feel to congratulate our patrons upon the new arrangement, as I can assure them that Br. Hills is a scholar and a gentleman, and no pains will be spared, on his part, to make this a useful and interesting sheet, such as will prove a benefit to the church.
E. ROBINSON.
SALUTATORY.
In consenting to come before the public in the capacity of Assistant Editor of the "Times & Seasons," I am aware that I make my debut under circumstances somewhat embarrassing. This paper, like the Church whose avowed organ it is, has risen from an obscure origin, to become a herald of religious intelligence to many of the enlightened nations of the earth. It has not obtained its enviable character, without meeting, at every step, sore and steady opposition. The pulpit and the press have teemed with scurrility and abuse, and, every possible method has been resorted to, by the learned and the vile, to obstruct and close up this avenue of truth and intelligence to the minds of reasoning men. But these means have proved ineffectual. The pens of the good and the brave, dipped in the fountain of Eternal Intelligence, have continued to mark out and unfold the records of wisdom; and a power, incomprehensible, but true and certain, has protected and nerved the press, in its effort to throw out upon the world, truths as lasting and indelible as the records of time, and as sure to scatter, dismay, and confound the forces of error, as the sun rising in his strength is sure to dissolve and dispel the mists and gloom of the night. As the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has been the protege of a wise, but inscrutable Providence, so has the "Times & Seasons," and the best of men have been raised up to be its Editors and Proprietors. Such were Gen. D. C. Smith, and Col. R. B. Thompson-men of whom the world was not worthy; and they have been removed, though to the extreme loss of the church, yet to their infinite gain. In view of this afflictive dispensation our Prophet exclaimed, overwhelmed with sorrowful regret, "Where shall we find men that will stand forth and fill their places!"-The present proprietor, with the multiplicity of cares that have been rolling upon him, in fitting up this establishment for extensive operations in stereotyping and book printing, again undertook its publication, and has thus far nobly sustained the burden.-But he can sustain it no longer; and in looking around for assistance, he has invited my feeble services. I step forth to this undertaking tremblingly, (who can do otherwise?) believing, however that an honest effort to serve them, will be complacently received by a generous public. I am aware in whose footsteps I tread; but they are footsteps consecrated, a thousand tender reflections hover around them, and I call to mind the saying, "Let me live the life of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!"-With the hope that the spirit that rested up-upon [upon] my predecessors may in part redound[rebound] to me, and that the kind mantle of charity will be thrown over my errors and weaknesses, I take up my pen, and shall use my best endeavors to make our paper, what it has heretofore been, a welcome visitor, and an acceptable and successful herald of truth, among the families and nations of the earth.
GUSTAVUS HILLS.
We are pleased to learn that the hint we gave in a late number, concerning Steam Mills &c., has been heartily responded to by our able and
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