Ensign

September 1985

Volume 15 Number 9

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: Keep the Faith
  President Gordon B. Hinckley

• The New Hymnbook: The Saints Are Singing!
  Kathleen Lubeck

• Latter-day Saint Hymnbooks, Then and Now
  Michael F. Moody

• Songs, Letters, Lessons—and a Teacher

• Topically Speaking: A Look at the Impressive Doctrine and Covenants
  John W. Welch

• “Down and Back” Wagon Trains: Bringing the Saints to Utah in 1861
  William G. Hartley

• Ardeth Greene Kapp: A Prairie Girl, a Young Woman Still
  Karen Thomas Arnesen

• From Tragedy to Hope: Helping Unwed Parents
  Joy F. Evans

• Stage Sets and Scribbling: How Personal Growth Enhances Marriage
  Mollie Hobaugh Sorensen

• After Twenty Years
  Mark Hart

• The Kennewick Cannery: Converting the Saints
  Brenda Taylor Peterson

• Regular Features

• I Have a Question
  The fulness of the gospel in the Book of Mormon Daniel H. Ludlow

• Handbook for Families: Disciplining with Love

• Portraits
  Byron S. Mackay: Arthritis Can’t Cripple His Spirit Stephanie J. Bird
  David K. Keala: Family Patriarch—and Homemaker of the Year Yvonne Kukahiko Wong

• Mormon Journal
  A Message from Dad Jay L. Packard
  “Yes, I Am a Mormon” David K. Skidmore
  Troy’s Friend Sylvia H. Greenhalgh

• Random Sampler
  Safeguarding Our Children
  “To Be Opened in July 1992”
  Good Morning!
  A New Old Journal

• Comment

• Speaking Today: To Be Born Again
  Elder Theodore M. Burton

• Poetry
  Haiku Frances M. Wormuth
  Lifting Donna H. Erickson
  Missionary Couple Shirley Adwena Harvey
  Promise Joyce Kohler
  Patchwork Denise Tucker
  Father Made Mountains into Molehills D. J. Harper

• News of the Church