Be Happy, My Boy: A Poem

THE LIFE AND LABORS OF SIDNEY RIGDON. 273

At the conference next day, in consequence of his weakness, resulting from his labors of the day before, he called on John C. Bennett to officiate in his place. Consequently, on the 8th, John C. Bennett was presented, with the First Presidency, as Assistant President until President Rigdon's health should be restored. President Rigdon delivered a discourse, in the afternoon of the same on "Baptism for the Dead," followed by President Joseph <iay,

Smith on the same subject. On Sunday, Uth, President Rigdon spoke on "Baptism for the Remission of Sins." On Sunday, June 1, President Joseph Smith says, "Elder Sidney Rigdon has been ordained a prophet, seer and revelator." Early this month Joseph said, "The newspapers of the United States are teeming with all manner of lies, abusing the Saints of the Most High, and striving to call down the wrath of the people upon his servants." How much like the condition of things now, .at the junction of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries!

BE HAPPY, MY BOY.

At all this world's crosses, and all this world's crowns, Look up and be happy, my boy; Nor heed its sad sorrows, nor all its dark frowns, Look up and be happy, my boy.

Whenever the cares of your day shall oppress, Look up and be happy, my boy; Let faith in the future your soul still possess, Look up and be happy, my boy.

Then God will protect you, and all will be well. Look up and be happy, my boy; His spirit shall weave round about you its spell, Look up and be happy, my boy. ^