All Is Well (hymn)
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All Is Well (hymn)
"Come, Come, Ye Saints" (originally "All is Well") is one of the best-known The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints hymns, Latter-day Saint hymns. The lyrics were written in 1846 by Mormon poet William Clayton (Mormon), William Clayton. The hymn has been called the anthem of the nineteenth-century Mormon pioneers. Clayton wrote the hymn "All is Well" on April 15, 1846, as his Mormon pioneer caravan rested at Locust Creek, Iowa, over 100 miles west of its origin city of Nauvoo, Illinois. Just prior to writing the lyrics, Clayton had received word that one of his wives, Diantha, had given birth to a healthy boy in Nauvoo. It was set to the music of a popular English folk tune, "All is Well." The hymn was renamed "Come, Come, Ye Saints" and is hymn number 30 in the Hymns of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1985 book), current LDS Church hymnal. A men's arrangement of the hymn is number 326 of the same hymnal. "Come, Come, Ye Saints" features prominently in ce ...
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