Ensign

April 1976

Volume 6 Number 4

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: A Day of Decision
  President Marion G. Romney

• Father to Son: A Dialogue on Priesthood
  Chauncey C. Riddle

• Israel, Golden Calves, and Me
  Spencer J. Condie

• A Letter to Wives of Nonmembers
  Carole Osborne Cole

• The Handicapped: How to Help Them, How They Help Us

• Strength through Infirmity
  Gordon B. Holbrook

• A Voice the Deaf Can Hear
  Sybil Hendricks

• What Michael Gave Us
  Marguerite I. Wilson

• The Lessons Richard Teaches Us
  Derek Dixon

• When the Body Is Imperfect
  Brenda Bloxham

• How Can You Help?

• Where Are You, Joe?
  Marilyn Y. Keyte

• Ward Paper Woes
  Laurie Williams Sowby

• The Saints on Vancouver Island
  Robert J. McCue

• “Speaking the Truth in Love”
  Eugene England

• New Testament Backgrounds: Thessalonians through Hebrews
  Edward J. Brandt, J. Lewis Taylor, and Lane Johnson

• A Strange Thing In the Land: The Return of the Book of Enoch, Part 5
  Hugh Nibley

• Regular Features

• Poetry and Other Verse
  The Valentine Carol Lynn Pearson
  Prayer for an Afflicted Child Carol Lynn Pearson
  Short Roots Carol Lynn Pearson

• I Have a Question
  Elder John H. Vandenberg
  Robert G. Mouritsen
  Russell M. Nelson
  Josiah Douglas

• Random Sampler

• Mirthright

• Speaking Today
  From Age Eighteen On Elder David B. Haight
  New Lamps for Old Barbara B. Smith
  Priorities in the Pursuit of Excellence Janath R. Cannon

• Mormon Media
  “A Plainer Translation” Keith H. Meservy

• Comment

• News of the Church