Liahona

August 1996

Volume 20, Number 8

Contents

• Features

• First Presidency Message: Continuing Revelation
  President James E. Faust

• Popularity and Principle
  Elder Neal A. Maxwell

• Hole-in-the-Rock
  LaRene Porter Gaunt

• Chile—A Fruitful Vineyard
  Michael R. Morris

• A Bowlful of Peanuts
  Ronald W. Rook

• Especially for Youth

• Time for the Gospel
  Laury Livsey

• When All Is Not Well at Home
  Jan Pinborough

• A Journal for Today and Tomorrow
  Jeffrey S. McClellan

• I Asked, He Answered
  Eric Hansen

• Coming Back
  Sara Fitzgerald

• Departments

• Comment

• Mormon Message: It’s Nice to Be Important, but It’s More Important to Be Nice

• Visiting Teaching Message: A Witness at All Times and in All Places

• The Friend

• The Signs of Christ’s Birth

• The Strait and Narrow Way
  Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin

• Friends in the News

• Fiction: Purple Alligator
  Alma J. Yates

• Fun Page

• Sharing Time: I Pray for Others
  Karen Ashton

• For Little Friends
  Being a Sunbeam Corliss Clayton