“Contents,” Ensign, Apr. 1984, 1 Ensign April 1984 Volume 14 Number 4 Contents Special Features First Presidency Message: “When the World Will Be Converted”President Spencer W. Kimball Think on ChristPresident Ezra Taft Benson Finding the Miracle of EasterJanene Wolsey Baadsgaard And We Did Liken the Scriptures unto Our MarriageSpencer J. Condie Extending Our “Blessing Years”Lettice O. Rich James C. Fletcher: Knowledge Lights the WayDale Van Atta Obscenity—How It Affects Us, How We Can Deal with ItVictor B. Cline Only through the PriesthoodDon Searle LDS Artifacts and Art Portray Church History: The New Church MuseumKerril Sue Rollins Orson Pratt: Early Advocate of the Book of MormonDavid J. Whittaker Help for Parents in Times of Stress: Preventing AbuseJoy Evans “Do We Have To?” Another Look at Family Home EveningGlenn I. Latham Many Kinds of CompassionKathy Summers Regular Features PoetryPsalm of Gratitude and Service Janell R. ArringtonOn Admission to the Bar Lisa Bolin Hawkins I Have a QuestionD. Russell CraneLarry C. Porter Mormon JournalRefusing Bitterness Jeffrey ButlerA Priesthood Blessing Eleanor Yates BartonA Warning Voice G. Margaret Mauery Sharing Mirthright: The Bishop’s WifeJoyce Gardner Random Sampler News of the Church On the cover: “The Lord Jesus Christ,” by Del Parson, 20″ by 28″, oil on canvas, 1983. Del Parson, a full-time painter since 1975, graduated from Brigham Young University with a Masters degree in art. He and his wife Lynnette are the parents of four children. They reside in Rexburg, Idaho, where he is first counselor in the bishopric of his ward. An 11″ by 17″ copy of the painting is available at the Salt Lake Distribution Center, 1999 W. 1700 S., Salt Lake City, UT 84104. Stock no. VVOQ5724; cost 40¢. Another copy of the painting, a 16″ by 20″ Gospel-in-Art print identified as “The Lord Jesus Christ,” suitable for framing, is available at Church Magazines, 50 East North Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150, for $1.50. Copyright © 1984 by Corporation of the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, All rights reserved. Inside front cover: Scenes for “The Road to Emmaus,” a four minute scriptural message produced by the Church. It will be televised in the United States and Canada before Easter in company with a Church television special. Jesus walks with two disciples along the road to Emmaus. Inset: The Last Supper. (Photography by Eldon Linschoten.) Inside back cover: Scenes from the Church’s television scriptural message “The Road to Emmaus.” (Photography by Eldon Linschoten.) Christ with the children. Jesus healing a blind man. The Lord raising Lazarus from the dead.