Ensign

June 2002

Volume 32 Number 6

Contents

• First Presidency Message: A Little Child Shall Lead Them

  President Thomas S. Monson

• Putting Family First

  E. Jeffrey Hill

• Gospel Classics: Father, Consider Your Ways

  The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

• Latter-day Prophets Speak: Righteous Fathers in the Home

• Eli and His Sons

  Elder Paulo R. Grahl

• A King for Israel

  Peggy Furniss Lee

• Finding Jesus Christ in the Old Testament

  Andrew C. Skinner

• LORD = Jehovah

  Keith H. Meservy

• Do You Have a Song for Us?

  Randal Thatcher

• To Acquire Knowledge and the Strength to Use It Wisely

  Elder Richard G. Scott

• On-Site: “No Place I Would Rather Be”

  Jason H. Hay

• Singles in the Ward Family

  Kathy Grant

• Questions and Answers: Helping family members who are not interested in the Church come closer to God

• Sharing the Gospel with Sensitivity

  Elder R. Lloyd Smith

• A Priceless Pearl: Alma O. Taylor’s Mission to Japan

  Reid L. Neilson

• Arizona Dirt, Pennsylvania Soil

  Barbara Murphy Likovich

• Joseph Smith: Prophet of the Restoration

  Elder Tad R. Callister

• Visiting Teaching Message: Strengthening Our Marriages, Families, and Homes

• Latter-day Saint Voices

  • Honoring My Father

    Sondra Annis

  • The Faith of a Child

    William M. Wach

  • My Search by Postcard

    Bobi Morgan

  • Tatting for the Temple

    Candace Bailey Munoa

• Random Sampler

• Saints in Louisville, Kentucky

• News of the Church

• Making the Most of This Issue

Inside front cover: After the Martyrdom, by Gary Smith. This poetic representation of the Martyrdom captures the heavy sadness felt after the death of the Prophet Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum in 1844. Somber colors veil the scene. A tomblike Carthage Jail, its height exaggerated, looms over the Saints standing with heads bowed low. “Joseph Smith … lived great, and he died great in the eyes of God and his people; and … sealed his mission and his works with his own blood; and so has his brother Hyrum” (D&C 135:3).

Inside back cover: Old Testament Prophets, by Scott McGregor Snow. Anciently, as today, a prophet’s primary responsibility was to bear witness of Christ. This painting shows us what such a scene may have looked like during ancient times. A prophet is called by God and acts as His messenger. He teaches truth and makes known God’s will to mankind. He denounces sin and warns of its consequences (see Bible Dictionary, “Prophet,” 754).