“Contents,” Ensign, Aug. 1978, 1
Special Features
First Presidency Message: The Voice of the SpiritPresident Marion G. Romney
Three Jaredites: Contrasting ContemporariesElder Neal A. Maxwell
Book of Mormon Personalities Known by Joseph SmithRobert J. Woodford
From a Book of Mormon NotebookLavina Fielding Anderson
Our Small MiracleCherry Lee Davis
Why Your Daughter Needs the Young Women ProgramPresident Ruth H. Funk
Our Temple Marriage Stopped ThereJane Harveaux
Small Branch at the Gate of TremblingDerek Dixon
“Awake My Soul!”: Dealing Firmly with DepressionSteve Gilliland
David and the Butterfly NetJoy Nelson Hulme
Grandma Taught Me to SeeCharles M. Manwaring
Jonathon Napela: Quiet Hero of HawaiiJoseph H. Spurrier
Privacy and a Sense of SelfMaureen Ebert Leavitt
Long Distance Birthday PartiesNicole Hoffman
The Elbow-Grease Factor: How to Teach Your Children to Love WorkOrson Scott Card
Regular Features
Poetry The Laying on of Hands Carol Lynn Pearson The Outward Reach Helen Mar Cook Testimony Yvonne L. Pagano Power Gloria Tester The Background Music Martha P. Taysom
I Have a QuestionBruce L. Olsen Gerald E. Jones Don Norton Wayne B. Lynn
Discovery The “Genes” in Genealogy Study Shows Mormons Getting More “Peculiar”
Mormon Journal A Dream of His Father Loie M. Beach Mother Fed Five Thousand Karen Christensen Luthy The Discussions in Sign Language Steven A. Wolfe Sitting on the Sidelines for My Priests Roger L. Rice
Random Sampler
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News of the Church
On the cover: Photography by Eldon K. Linschoten.
Inside front cover: Sermon on the Mount, Grant Romney Clawson, 94″ x 180″, oil, Visitors’ Center North, Temple Square. Enlarged copy of an original by Harry Anderson.
Inside back cover: Samoa Temple.