Ensign

May 1976

Volume 6 Number 5

Contents

• Report of the 146th Annual Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

• Saturday Morning Session

• The Stone Cut without Hands
  President Spencer W. Kimball

• Hopeless Dawn—Joyful Morning
  Elder Thomas S. Monson

• The Lamanites Must Rise in Majesty and Power
  Elder J. Thomas Fyans

• The Message of Elijah
  Elder Mark E. Petersen

• Saturday Afternoon Session

• Statistical Report 1975

• Church Finance Committee Report

• The Sustaining of Church Officers
  President N. Eldon Tanner

• He Is the Son of God

  Elder David B. Haight

• The Still Small Voice
  Elder S. Dilworth Young

• You Are Your Greatest Treasure
  Elder John H. Vandenberg

• “Jesus of Nazareth, Savior and King”
  Elder Neal A. Maxwell

• The Word of Wisdom
  Elder Theodore M. Burton

• Spiritual Crocodiles
  Elder Boyd K. Packer

• Priesthood Session

• Priesthood—Authority and Power
  Bishop H. Burke Peterson

• “Seek Not for Riches But for Wisdom”
  Elder Franklin D. Richards

• A Missionary Opportunity
  Elder Carlos E. Asay

• Learn Obedience and Service
  Elder M. Russell Ballard, Jr.

• On Accepting the Call
  Elder John H. Groberg

• Shout It from the Rooftops
  Elder Jacob de Jager

• Are You Taking Your Priesthood for Granted?
  President N. Eldon Tanner

• Boys Need Heroes Close By
  President Spencer W. Kimball

• Sunday Morning Session

• If They Will But Serve the God of the Land
  President N. Eldon Tanner

• Family Communications
  Elder Marvin J. Ashton

• “There Am I in the Midst of Them”
  Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin

• These Four Things
  Elder Robert L. Simpson

• “An Honest Man—God’s Noblest Work”
  Elder Gordon B. Hinckley

• Sunday Afternoon Session

• “As a Man Soweth”
  Elder L. Tom Perry

• A Living Prophet
  Elder Loren C. Dunn

• Who Is Jesus?
  Elder Eldred G. Smith

• Relationships
  Elder William Grant Bangerter

• The Right to Choose
  Elder Henry D. Taylor

• “The Leaves Are Commencing to Show on the Fig Tree”
  Elder Bernard P. Brockbank

• Easter Thoughts
  Elder Delbert L. Stapely

• Tuesday Morning Session

• The Way of Life
  President Marion G. Romney

• Value of the Holy Scriptures
  Elder LeGrand Richards

• The Book of Mormon
  Elder James A. Cullimore

• The Matter of Personal Testimony
  Elder Joseph Anderson

• The Value of People
  Elder Charles A. Didier

• The Constitution—A Glorious Standard
  President Ezra Taft Benson

• Tuesday Afternoon Session

• Joseph Smith—The Mighty Prophet of the Restoration
  Elder Bruce R. McConkie

• Are We Following Christ’s Pattern?
  Elder William R. Bradford

• “But They Were in One”
  Elder George P. Lee

• The Blessing of Building a Temple
  Elder Adney Y. Komatsu

• Are You a Member Missionary?
  Elder Gene R. Cook

• That We May Be One
  Elder Howard W. Hunter

• Seeking Eternal Riches
  President Spencer W. Kimball

• Welfare Session

• The Church and the Family in Welfare Services
  Bishop Victor L. Brown

• The Church Employment System
  Bishop H. Burke Peterson

• Food Storage
  Bishop Vaughn J. Featherstone

• Teach LDS Women Self-Sufficiency
  Barbara B. Smith

• Church Welfare Services’ Basic Principles
  President Marion G. Romney

• Family Preparedness
  President Spencer W. Kimball

• Scriptural Text for Visions Added to Pearl of Great Price

• General Authorities of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

• News of the Church

• Lorenzo Snow

On the cover: Photograph of an original painting by Grant Romney Clawson, which hangs as a mural in the Temple Square Visitors Center.

Inside front cover: Photograph of a monument located on Temple Square. The full text of the engraving reads, “The Constitution of the United States is a glorious standard … founded in the wisdom of God … established by the hands of wise men … raised up unto this very purpose. It is to all those who are privileged with the sweets of liberty like the cooling shades and refreshing waters of a great rock in a thirsty and weary land. Joseph Smith.”

Inside back cover: Lorenzo Snow. This photograph was taken during President Snow’s three-year presidency, between 1898 and 1901, by an unknown photographer.

Photography in this issue is by members of the Church Photography Department: Eldon K. Linschoten; Longin Lonczyna, Jr.; Marilyn Erd; Jed A. Clark; Craig L. Law.