Come, Come, Ye Saints

DESCRIPTION: "Come, come, ye saints, no toil nor labor fear; But with joy wend your way. Though hard to you this journey may appear, Grace shall be as your day." Don't worry about the difficulty of life; travel to the place where "All is well! All is well!"
AUTHOR: Words: William Clayton (1814-1879) / Music: "All Is Well" by J. T. White (source: Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest/hymnary.org)
EARLIEST DATE: 1871 (Sacred Hymns and Spiritual Songs, according to Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
KEYWORDS: religious travel derivative | Mormon
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, pp. 181-182, "Come, Come, Ye Saints" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "All Is Well" (tune)
NOTES [154 words]: Although this doesn't really seem to have gone into tradition, it seems to be quite well-known among the Latter-Day Saints; Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest titles their section of Mormon songs "Come, Come, Ye Saints," and I think I've seen that in other books as well, plus Fife/Fife-SaintsOfSageAndSaddle quote it at least twice including on p. 208.
William Clayton is said to have been Joseph Smith's clerk. According to Fawn M. Brodie, No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith, 1945, 1971 (I use the 1995 Vintage edition), p. 303, he was one of the men to whom Smith first revealed his revelation of polygamy, along with such heavyweights as Hyrum Smith, Brigham Young, and Heber C. Kimball. He would actually conduct the ceremony of at least one of Smith's marriages (Brodie, p. 338). But this, obviously, was written later, after Smith's death, when the Mormons were preparing to go to Utah. - RBW
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