Ensign

September 1979

Volume 9 Number 9

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: America’s Promise
  President Marion G. Romney

• Learning about Ourselves through Church History
  Leonard J. Arrington

• Nauvoo
  The Nauvoo Years Glen M. Leonard and T. Edgar Lyon
  Frontier Nauvoo: Building a Picture from Statistics James E. Smith
  They Came to Nauvoo Lavina Fielding Anderson
  Joseph Smith and Nauvoo’s Youth William G. Hartley

• Joseph Smith’s Brothers: Nauvoo and After
  Richard Lloyd Anderson

• The Way It Looks Today: A Camera Tour of Church History Sites in Illinois

• “We Believe. …”: Development of the Articles of Faith
  John W. Welch and David J. Whittaker

• Joseph Smith’s Reputation
  Among Historians Dean Jessee
  Among Theologians Truman G. Madsen

• The Elect Lady: Emma Hale Smith
  Valeen Tippetts Avery and Linda King Newell

• Nineteenth-Century Break-offs
  Russell R. Rich

• The Mormon Pioneer Trail, 1846–47
  Stanley B. Kimball

• Regular Features

• Poetry
  Nauvoo Remembers Jay A. Parry

• News of the Church