Ensign

May 1987

Volume 17 Number 5

Contents

• Report of the 157th Annual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

• Saturday Morning Session

• The Savior’s Visit to America
  President Ezra Taft Benson

• Life after Life
  Elder Russell M. Nelson

• What It Means to Be a Saint
  Elder Wm. Grant Bangerter

• Keeping Life’s Demands in Balance
  Elder M. Russell Ballard

• Am I a “Living” Member?
  President Howard W. Hunter

• Saturday Afternoon Session

• The Sustaining of Church Officers
  President Thomas S. Monson

• The Church Audit Committee Report

• Statistical Report 1986

• Covenants
  Elder Boyd K. Packer

• Spiritual Security
  Elder Charles Didier

• The Book of Mormon’s Witness of Jesus Christ
  Elder J. Thomas Fyans

• Patience, a Key to Happiness
  Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin

• “United in Building the Kingdom of God”
  Elder L. Tom Perry

• Priesthood Session

• Priesthood Blessings
  Elder Dallin H. Oaks

• No Shortcuts
  Elder Robert L. Simpson

• Tears, Trials, Trust, Testimony
  President Thomas S. Monson

• Reverence and Morality
  President Gordon B. Hinckley

• To the Home Teachers of the Church
  President Ezra Taft Benson

• Sunday Morning Session

• The Lengthened Shadow of the Hand of God
  President Gordon B. Hinckley

• My Neighbor—My Brother!
  Elder David B. Haight

• The Blessings of Being Unified
  Elder Hugh W. Pinnock

• “I Am an Adult Now”
  Elder Marvin J. Ashton

• The Will Within
  President Thomas S. Monson

• Sunday Afternoon Session

• “Overcome … Even As I Also Overcame”
  Elder Neal A. Maxwell

• By Faith and Hope, All Things Are Fulfilled
  Elder Paul H. Dunn

• “Some Have Compassion, Making a Difference”
  Bishop Robert D. Hales

• Looking to the Savior
  Elder Adney Y. Komatsu

• “Will I Be Happy?”
  Elder James E. Faust

• The Book of Mormon and the Doctrine and Covenants
  President Ezra Taft Benson

• Conference Addresses Correlated to Church Curriculum

• General Conference Music

• News of the Church

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On the cover: And Jesus Healed Them, by James J. Tissot.

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Inside front cover: The Sermon on the Mount, by James J. Tissot.

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Inside back cover: Jesus Leaves Jerusalem for Bethany, by James J. Tissot.

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Photography in this issue features scenes of conference and paintings by James J. Tissot of scenes from the life of the Lord Jesus Christ. Tissot, 1836–1902, was a French painter who, toward the end of his life, published the Tissot Bible, illustrated with 865 paintings derived from studies he made in Palestine. All conference photography is by Audiovisual Planning and Development, Photo Section: Eldon K. Linschoten, Marty Mayo, and Jed A. Clark. Additional photography by Douglas James, Craig Moyer, and Phillip Shurtleff.