Anyone care to reexplain the mysterious and bothersome hymn Come Come Ye Saints, which chorus says, "All is Well, All is Well", yet the Book of Mormon states "Wo unto those who say All is Well in Zion"? Do we sin everytime we sing that hymn?
--Ray
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I'm not slow; I'm special. (Don't take it personally, everyone finds me offensive. Yet somehow I manage to live with myself.)
It is not saying All is Well in Zion (as in I can take it easy because everything is doing just fine), but that regardless of the burdens carried or cup of trials given, All is Well (as in don't lose hope and keep on going) because this is part of the refiner's fire...
Completely different context. And poetry (and hymn lyrics) must be taken in full context, not the musical phrasing.
Sheesh Ray, are you looking to get all hauntified by the ghosts of yer Mormon Pioneer Ancestors or sumfin?
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It seems to me the only thing you've learned is that Caesar is a "salad dressing dude."
But... but... Cat!? The Pharisee in me wants to ban the stringing of those three words together altogether... for fear of committing sin!! Lest we accidentally say "All... is... well..." we should have like an eleventh commandment, to not say the word "well."
--Ray
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I'm not slow; I'm special. (Don't take it personally, everyone finds me offensive. Yet somehow I manage to live with myself.)
no unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing... the truth of God will go forth till it has penetrated every website, sounded in every ear, till the purposes of God shall be accomplished and the great Jehovah shall say the work is done
no- they sang All is Well eternally even when it really wasn't, ie people died in the pioneer treks, etc. I once heard a story where some WW2 soldiers sang it. THey were having a meeting and as they sang, knew the soldiers who didn't show up at the meeting had died in the recent battle.
But in the Book of Mormon the people think things are well even when they really aren't due to their sins,etc
Don't know if that makes sense, probably not but that's my take on it.
The hymn is an anthem of hope, not of complacency. I like to think of it as more of an eternal "All is well", not a temporal one. Temporally, you never have "All is well", and coming to that false conclusion is where the problem lies because it halts progression. Instead the hymn sings of hope for the time when all really is well, and just reminds us as Saints to keep at it and keep doing well, so that someday all really will be well.
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Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
— Oscar Wilde
