“Contents,” Ensign, Sept. 1975, 1 Ensign September 1975 Volume 5, Number 9 Contents Special Features First Presidency Message: Always a Convert Church: Some Lessons to Learn and Apply This YearPresident Spencer W. Kimball The Plain and Precious Parts: How Modern Scripture Helps Us Understand the New TestamentRobert J. Matthews The Church and the Roman EmpireRichard Lloyd Anderson From Solomon’s Porch: A View of the Church as the Apostles Took CommandT. Edgar Lyon The Lengthening Shadow of PeterJeffrey R. Holland Cameos: The Women of the New TestamentAnn N. Madsen The Lands That Saw PaulPhotography by Don Marshall Paul: The Long Road from DamascusC. Wilfred Griggs That Process Called ConversionElder Hartman Rector, Jr. Discovering the Holy GhostDavid H. Yarn, Jr. Failing Never: What the Apostles Teach Us about LoveElder Marion D. Hanks Letter to MichaelChauncey C. Riddle Understanding the Book of RevelationElder Bruce R. McConkie Your Children: What Are They Learning? How Can You Help?Lane Johnson Regular Features I Have a QuestionGerald N. LundRobert T. StoutF. Craig Sudbury News of the Church On the cover: Ruins of ancient Ephesus in western Turkey, where Paul spent nearly three years establishing branches. (Photography by Don Marshall, faculty member at Brigham Young University.) Inside front cover: Sea, horizon, coastal cliffs of southwestern Turkey, past which Paul traveled several times. (Photography by Don Marshall, faculty member at Brigham Young University.) Inside back cover: Beautiful harbor of Attalia, with some of its ancient harbor walls still intact, into which Paul sailed on his “first mission.” (Photography by Don Marshall, faculty member at Brigham Young University.)