Ensign

February 1986

Volume 16 Number 2

Inside front cover: Photography by Busath.

Contents

• Special Features

• President Gordon B. Hinckley: First Counselor
  Elder Boyd K. Packer

• President Thomas S. Monson: Man of Action, Man of Faith, Always “on the Lord’s Errand”
  Jeffrey R. Holland

• “Cleanse Us from All Unrighteousness”
  Elder Neal A. Maxwell

• Of One Heart
  Maryan Myres Shumway

• A Prophet Looks at Exodus through Deuteronomy: Insights from the Joseph Smith Translation
  George A. Horton, Jr.

• An Age of Contrasts: From Adam to Abraham
  Kent P. Jackson

• Raising the Quality of Life: The Ezra Taft Benson Institute
  Jan Underwood Pinborough

• “Go Help Jan”
  Myrna Behunin

• Harvest of Faith on Chicago’s South Side
  Linda Hoffman Kimball

• “I Couldn’t Find a Good Excuse”
  Walter Swan

• Marriage and the Law of the Harvest
  Lawrence M. Barry

• Spokes on the Wheel: Early Latter-day Saint Settlements in Hancock County, Illinois
  Donald Q. Cannon

• Regular Features

• Poetry
  To an Earth-Released Connie Huggins
  For Those Who Mourn Paul Buckingham

• I Have a Question
  Lotteries William D. Oswald
  Marriage for Eternity (Matt. 22:29–30) David H. Yarn, Jr.

• Sharing

• Handbook for Families: Expressing Love within the Family

• Mormon Journal
  “Flying Coffin” Elmer Beckstrand
  After Four Hundred Names … Jon B. Fish
  That Chicken Job Linda R. Hyde

• Discovery
  Stamp Sampler
  The Grasshopper War of 1855 and the Provo Sugar Miracle

• Random Sampler
  Enjoying Scriptures with Small Children
  Safe Water in Emergencies
  Remember the Rule
  Writing It Down for Mom

• Mirthright

• News of the Church