"I believe that William Clayton was inspired of the Lord when he wrote this hymn. . . . It was a wonderful trip the Pioneers were about to make. . . . I have admiration for the courage, the faith, and the will power of our fathers and our mothers who started out in the wilderness, not knowing where they were going, but singing:
Come, come, ye Saints, no toil nor labor fear,
But with joy wend your way”
(Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Heber J. Grant, p. 132).
