Come, Come, Ye Saints

This week's new release is "Come, Come, Ye Saints," one of the best-known Latter-day Saint hymns.The lyrics were written in 1846 by Mormon poet 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 learned that he had just become the father to a brand-new healthy boy in Nauvoo. It was set to the music of a popular English folk tune, "All is Well."