Ensign

August 1978

Volume 8 Number 8

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: The Voice of the Spirit
  President Marion G. Romney

• Three Jaredites: Contrasting Contemporaries
  Elder Neal A. Maxwell

• Book of Mormon Personalities Known by Joseph Smith
  Robert J. Woodford

• From a Book of Mormon Notebook
  Lavina Fielding Anderson

• Our Small Miracle
  Cherry Lee Davis

• Why Your Daughter Needs the Young Women Program
  President Ruth H. Funk

• Our Temple Marriage Stopped There
  Jane Harveaux

• Small Branch at the Gate of Trembling
  Derek Dixon

• “Awake My Soul!”: Dealing Firmly with Depression
  Steve Gilliland

• David and the Butterfly Net
  Joy Nelson Hulme

• Grandma Taught Me to See
  Charles M. Manwaring

• Jonathon Napela: Quiet Hero of Hawaii
  Joseph H. Spurrier

• Privacy and a Sense of Self
  Maureen Ebert Leavitt

• Long Distance Birthday Parties
  Nicole Hoffman

• The Elbow-Grease Factor: How to Teach Your Children to Love Work
  Orson Scott Card

• Regular Features

• Poetry
  The Laying on of Hands Carol Lynn Pearson
  The Outward Reach Helen Mar Cook
  Testimony Yvonne L. Pagano
  Power Gloria Tester
  The Background Music Martha P. Taysom

• I Have a Question
  Bruce L. Olsen
  Gerald E. Jones
  Don Norton
  Wayne B. Lynn

• Discovery
  The “Genes” in Genealogy
  Study Shows Mormons Getting More “Peculiar”

• Mormon Journal
  A Dream of His Father Loie M. Beach
  Mother Fed Five Thousand Karen Christensen Luthy
  The Discussions in Sign Language Steven A. Wolfe
  Sitting on the Sidelines for My Priests Roger L. Rice

• Random Sampler

• Comment

• News of the Church

On the cover: Photography by Eldon K. Linschoten.

Inside front cover: Sermon on the Mount, Grant Romney Clawson, 94″ x 180″, oil, Visitors’ Center North, Temple Square. Enlarged copy of an original by Harry Anderson.

Inside back cover: Samoa Temple.