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Just how many "Happy Texts" are there?

In the 1960 Disney feature film "Pollyanna"...

(A Great Film by the way...)

...Pollyanna herself told Reverend Ford that there were 800 "Happy Texts" or glad passages in the Bible. Reverend Ford pondered her statement all night and went through and counted up the so-called "Happy Texts". He announced in his sermon the next day that he had counted exactly 826.

Watch the film clip Here or below...

(Sidenote: Is anyone as jealous as I am of Rev. Ford's sweet laptop computer up on the pulpit?)

Well, I wanted to see if this was true. Are there exactly 826 "Happy Texts"? Thanks to these wonderful modern times, I didn't have to stay up all night reading. I used a scripture search on LDS.org. Here are the results...

Bliss – 2

Enjoyment - 9

Celebrate - 16

Happy – 43

Happiness – 60

Delight – 103

Pleasure – 110

Glad – 139

Joy – 356

Rejoice – 404

Happy Texts Total: 1,242

Wow! They were waaaaay off. Although, the search I did did include the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants and the Pearl of Great Price. Out of all of those, only 670 were from the Old and New Testament. Maybe I didn't search enough words.

"If God took the trouble to tell us 800 times to be glad and rejoice, He must have wanted us to do it."

-Pollyanna

"When you look for the bad in mankind expecting to find it, you surely will."

-Abraham Lincoln