Ensign

July 1989

Volume 19 Number 7

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: Born of God
  President Ezra Taft Benson

• Unrighteous Dominion
  Elder H. Burke Peterson

• Temple Ancestor Day
  Richard Tice

• Margaret McNeil Ballard’s Legacy of Faith
  Elder M. Russell Ballard

• A Grave by the Little Blue
  Terry Lynne Telford Jones

• The Honeymoon Trail
  H. Dean Garrett

• The Search for Early Members of the Church
  Susan Easton Black

• “Lord, Is It I?”—What I Learned from Martin Harris and Jonah
  James M. Perry and Robert J. Woolley

• Buon Giorno!

  Don L. Searle

• Enjoying Sacrament Meeting with Children
  Chris Crowe

• Ensign Contest Winners

• Rules for the 1990 Writing and Music Contests

• Eliza R. Snow Poetry Contest Winners
  In the Shadow of the Sun Michael Umphrey
  Gathering Linda Madsen Sheffield
  Beware the Leaven of the Pharisees Marilyn F. Dale
  The Jigsaw Puzzle Yolanda Klingler
  The Reunion Sherrie Ahlstrom Hundley

• 1989 Life-style Contest Winner: Child of Promise
  Elaine F. Whiteley

• Coping with the Heartache of Miscarriage
  Janene Wolsey Baadsgaard

• Regular Features

• Mormon Journal
  One Hundred Pounds of Potatoes Horst Scharffs, as told to Sandra Dawn Brimhall
  My Nonmember Missionary Cherry L. Morrow
  “Maybe I Can Help” Susan Zabriskie Homan

• I Have a Question: The role of grace in LDS theology
  Robert E. Parsons

• Research and Perspectives: Recent Studies on the Book of Mormon

• Random Sampler
  Life-Styles of the Prepared and Famous
  Home Evening in Lehi’s Tent (Almost)

• Speaking Today
  All That the Father Has President Thomas S. Monson
  A Tribute to Women Elder Boyd K. Packer
  Restoration of the Aaronic Priesthood Elder Robert B. Harbertson

• The Visiting Teacher: “Come Back”

• News of the Church