“Contents,” Liahona, Feb. 1996 Liahona February 1996 Volume 20, Number 2 Contents Features First Presidency Message: Joseph Smith and the Book of MormonPresident James E. Faust “So Glorious a Record”Robert L. Millet A Lamp unto My FeetCarmen Rodríguez de Fuentes A Latter-day Father’s GuidebookKim Crenshaw Sorensen “Cry unto Him” Our Helping HandsBonnie Hanson Kelly Especially for Youth I Knew NephiIain Saunders The ExperimentHeidi Harris No More FearOkoro Onyebuchi Questions and Answers Ideas for Effective Scripture StudyLisa M. Grover Time AloneTracy Barrand Temple ServiceLaury Livsey Departments Comment Visiting Teaching Message: Faith to Follow Jesus Christ The Friend The Murder of the Chief Judge Fiction: Lost RingLinda Lee Tenney Friend to FriendRebecca M. Taylor and Elder Neal A. Maxwell Sharing Time: My Father in Heaven Loves MeKaren Ashton For Little FriendsJamie’s Talk Ann Wing Fun Page On the cover: Cover art illustrates Amulek’s exhortation that we “be watchful unto prayer continually” (Alma 34:39). See “Cry unto Him,” page 34. Prayerful Sisters, by Larry Winborg. Back cover: (top) Invocation, by A. D. Shaw; (bottom) illustration by Keith Larson. Inside back cover: Lehi’s Dream, by Greg K. Olsen. In a vision, the prophet Lehi saw the tree of life, whose desirable fruit was symbolic of God’s love. Leading to the tree was an iron rod—the word of God. People either clung faithfully to the rod or fell away into temptation. From a large and spacious building, representing the world, multitudes mocked those seeking the truth (see 1 Ne. 8; 1 Ne. 11).