Ensign

January 1976

Volume 6 Number 1

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: Prayer Is the Key
  President Marion G. Romney

• Why the Lord Ordained Prayer
  Elder Bruce R. McConkie

• The Lord’s Prayers
  John W. Welch

• Prayer and the Prophet Joseph
  Truman G. Madsen

• Obstacles to Prayer
  Chauncey C. Riddle

• Before Praying
  Arthur R. Bassett

• “Where Two or Three Are Gathered”
  Gerald R. Schiefer

• The Extra Blessings of Family Prayer
  Ann H. Banks

• Stone or Bread?
  Francine Bennion

• Prayer (song)
  Dennis L. Crockett

• The Language of Formal Prayer
  Don E. Norton

• “We Thank Thee for This Food”
  Don J. Black

• Teaching Our Children to Pray
  Stephen R. and Sandra Covey

• Creative Homemaking
  Susan Oman

• The Saints in France
  Laurie J. Wilson

• New Testament Backgrounds: Romans
  Edward J. Brandt

• Elder Hugh B. Brown, 1883–1975: In Memoriam
  Dr. Edwin Brown Firmage

• Regular Features

• Poetry and Other Verse
  I Pray Zara Sabin
  Hebrews 11: Strangers and Pilgrims Arthur H. King
  A Reason Why Deborah Blose
  Prayer Harlan Y. Hammond
  To Kevin: Newly a Missionary Marden Clark
  Evening Prayer Lavina Fielding

• Mormon Journal
  My First Night Alone Melva Lee Wheelwright
  Why Wasn’t Cathy More Like Me? Jane P. Covey
  A Prompting to Fast Frank Aydelotte
  Businessman’s Prayer in an Upper Room Roy B. Webb
  We Talked in Whispers Myrna Behunin
  I Was a Bishop before I Really Learned to Pray Richard D. Anthony
  Dog Lost in the Rain Nadine Bushman Barton
  My Mother’s Mission Sipuao J. Matuauto
  I Saw My Counselors Walk In Jerry Lee Turley

• I Have a Question
  Glade F. Howell
  John H. Cox
  Robert F. Clyde
  Robert F. Bohn

• Random Sampler

• Keeping Pace
  Does Your Ward (or Stake) Have a History?
  Local Genealogy Seminars

• News of the Church

On the cover: Cover art by Jerry Harston

Inside back cover: Joseph Smith, Jr. This painting, presumed to be by a W. Majors, was probably done in the 1840s after the Prophet’s martyrdom; some researchers think it is from a now nonexistent daguerreotype. (Produced by Audio-Visual Services, Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Independence, Missouri.)