To Move Along

Read from the link, the story about one of the saints crossing the plains who sat at camp, tired and sick. He sang Come Come Ye Saints and then died in the night.  When they buried him, they used the very rock he had been sitting on as his headstone.

For others, what can you do
In just a spare hour or two?
Clayton wrote up a new song
To help the Saints move along

Read this wonderful article that
excerpts journals of early pioneers
to uncover the circumstance
around the time that Willaim Clayton wrote
this inspiring hymn.  There are
some great stories here as well:
BYU-EDU
in a speech given in the salt lake
tabernacle on 27 november 1978
President Jimmy Carter said,
"I thought about the early mormons coming across this country singing a
famous hymn Come Come Ye Saints.  Only a deep faith
could let the words of that song, All is Well, ring out. In times
when you and your forefathers were persecuted and driven one from
another when you crossed this land looking for freedom and a chance
to worship in your own way when perhaps you knew that you were
about to die when drought and thirst affected you and still the song
rang out all is well. This is indeed a demonstration of faith and a
reaffirmation of hope.