Ensign

September 1982

Volume 12 Number 9

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: Reverence
  President Marion G. Romney

• Marriage and the Patriarchal Order
  Elder Dean L. Larsen

• “The People Have Given Me a New Heart”
  Mary Ellen Edmunds

• Lew and His Brethren
  Donald Smurthwaite

• Giving Life to Leadership: Defining the Job, Providing Help, and Following Through
  Roger and Rebecca Merrill

• LDS Southwest Indian Art
  Richard G. Oman

• Carol Shelton Walker: Lessons from Adversity
  JoAnn Jolley

• The Best Times of Life
  Janene Wolsey Baadsgaard

• Richard Gibbons: Arizona Pioneer
  Jody Jensen

• How the Bible Came to Be: Part 8, The Power of the Word
  Lenet H. Read

• Genealogy of the King James Bible

• Regular Features

• Mormon Journal
  Love Was the Key Jane Raley Robinson
  My Car Taught Me to Pray Mervyn Dykes
  From Critic to Convert Joseph W. Darling

• I Have a Question
  Edward L. Soper
  Richard L. Hemrick

• Random Sampler

• Sharing

• Speaking Today: It’s No Fun Being Poor
  Elder Marvin J. Ashton

• News of the Church