Ensign

June 1987

Volume 17 Number 6

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: “Pay Thy Debt, and Live”
  President Ezra Taft Benson

• “Blessed Are Ye …”
  Catherine Thomas

• “Continue to Minister”
  Elder Neal A. Maxwell

• A Marriage to Last through Eternity
  Elder Theodore M. Burton

• “It’s Like Being Called on a Mission”
  Derin Head Rodriguez

• All That Glitters Isn’t Celestial
  Quinn G. McKay

• Brigham Young in England
  Ronald Esplin

• Have You Ever Seen the Lord?
  Elder Sterling W. Sill

• Chaplain Claude Newby: Faith Is His Field Gear
  Don L. Searle

• Teaching the Words of Life to Our Children
  Sandra Bradford Packard

• An Evening with Dad
  Cynthia Covey Haller

• Growing Older
  Elaine Reiser Alder

• Light beyond the Campfire
  Darrell H. Smith

• Death of a Personality
  Lola B. Walters

• Regular Features

• I Have a Question
  The King James Version of the Bible Franklin S. Gonzalez
  The Book of Revelation and 1 Nephi Dean L. Marriott

• Poetry
  Moroni Donnell W. Hunter
  The Cup Delta A. Sanderson
  Kite Strings C. Diane Quigley

• Portraits
  Hung Wo Loi: Finding Truth on the China-Macau Border Nanette Larsen
  Lucy Legg: Learning and Teaching the Healer’s Art Mary Alice Campbell
  Igor and Vesna Groupman: Sharing Love and the Gospel through Music DeLynn Decker

• Mormon Journal
  Rachel, My Sister Leah Chappell and Marilynne Linford
  Alex David A. Coory
  Finding My Black Ancestors Carol Batey and Brad Wilcox
  “I Understood Nearly Every Word” Maurine Derrick Keeler
  Ethel Sandra Kay Burgess

• Research and Perspectives
  Scriptures on 2,600-year-old Silver Scrolls Found in Jerusalem
  Iron Sword from the Time of Jeremiah Discovered near Jericho

• Fiction: Dallas Will Still Be There on Thursday
  Jack Weyland

• The Visiting Teacher: Love—The Foundation of Welfare

• Random Sampler
  Birthday Wheel
  Sunday Scrapbooks
  Toast, Tapes, and Scripture Study
  The Encouragement Council

• Speaking Today: Gambling—Morally Wrong and Politically Unwise
  Elder Dallin H. Oaks

• News of the Church