Ensign

July 1971

Volume 1 Number 7

Contents

• Regular Features

• First Presidency Message: “Successful” Sinners
  President Harold B. Lee

• The Spoken Word
  Elder Richard L. Evans

• The Sweetness of Sweat
  Wendell J. Ashton

• Our Readers Write

• Religion in the World

• Programs and Policies Newsletter

• Today’s Family
  Conducted by Mabel Jones Gabbott

• After All

• Editorial: Building Relationships

• Faith/Doctrine/History

• A Modern Prophet at Ninety-Five
  Albert L. Zobell, Jr.

• Classics in Mormon Thought: General Epistle
  Brigham Young (1801–1877)

• If There Must Needs Be Offense
  Hugh Nibley

• Joseph Smith’s Home Environment
  Richard Lloyd Anderson

• Human Relations/Teaching

• Good Teachers Matter
  Elder Marion D. Hanks

• The Cave
  Carla Worlund

• Contemporary Issues

• Confucianism
  Spencer J. Palmer

• Recipes from the Pacific Northwest
  Virginia Maughan Kammeyer

• Fiction/Poetry

• Fiction: Red River Rose
  Virginia Bell

• Poetry
  Harris T. Weberg
  Enola Chamberlin

• Special Lamanite Section

• The Lamanites (Introduction)

• Of Royal Blood
  President Spencer W. Kimball

• Lamanites and the Church
  M. Dallas Burnett

• Hope for the American Indian?
  Lawrence E. Cummins

• The Vanished American
  LeRoi Smith

• Awakening Guatemala
  Barbara Tietjen Jacobs

Cover Note: The faces captured photographically by Eldon Linschoten for the cover of this month’s Ensign belong to some of the young people who attended a Lamanite youth conference in Salt Lake City in April. Beginning on page 4 are five special articles on the Lamanites in the Church and in the world.