Ensign

August 1975

Volume 5 Number 8

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: Don’t Lie. Tell the Truth
  President Marion G. Romney

• “If You Ever Decide …”
  Mark Hart

• The 40-Day Ministry
  S. Kent Brown and C. Wilfred Griggs

• Permanent Missionaries
  Janice Clark

• “He Lives! For We Saw Him”
  Ivan J. Barrett

• With a Song on Your Hearth
  Margrit F. Lohner

• A Single Sound
  Rita Ann Best

• Area Conference in the Far East

• Japan: Land of the Rising Sun Kan Watanabe, et. al.

• Korea: Land of Morning Calm Ho Nam Rhee

• Encounter: The Korean Mind and the Gospel In Sang Han

• Hong Kong: Pearl of the Orient Jay A. Parry

• Taiwan: Steep Peaks and Towering Faith Janice Clark

• Philippines: The Land of Joyous Service

• Drugs: Why Do Kids Start? How Can You Help?
  E. Brent Frazier

• Nineteenth-Century Spelling: The Rules and the Writers
  Elinore Hughes Partridge

• “No Lights Out”

• Regular Features

• Insights

• I Have a Question
  C. Wilfred Griggs
  Isaac M. Stewart
  S. Kent Brown

• Mirthright

• Poetry

• Kindred Dead Judith Eccles Wight

• Mormon Journal

• Okinawa Story Misao Toma

• Leaving the Church—and Coming Back Yasuaki Handa

• Health Restored Ki Ho Chang

• Two Hours From the Chapel Sachiko Hotta

• Our Baby, My Husband, and the Priesthood Kyuln Lee

• Random Sampler

• Comment

• Speaking Today: Self-Reliance
  Elder Boyd K. Packer

• News of the Church