Ensign

January 1988

Volume 20 Number 1

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: The Book of Mormon Is the Word of God
  President Ezra Taft Benson

• A New Prophet and a New Scripture: The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon
  Kenneth W. Godfrey

• How Rare a Possession
  Richard Tice

• “I Will Not Burn the Book!”
  Vincenzo di Francesca

• Jerusalem at the Time of Lehi and Jeremiah
  Keith H. Meservy

• The Plates of Brass: A Witness of Christ
  Robert L. Millet

• Sorrow and Joy: What We Can Learn from Lehi
  Keith K. Hill

• Warring against the Saints of God
  Stephen E. Robinson

• A Book about God’s Love
  Lenet Read

• Even Though He’s Gone
  Kay Lindsay

• Family Business
  Sharon Ballif

• Treasure Hunt
  Kathy Clayton

• Regular Features

• Home Evenings: Positively Speaking
  Kenneth A. Smith

• I Have a Question
  The time it took to translate the Book of Mormon John W. Welch
  The Church’s relationship to non-Christian religions R. Lanier Britsch

• Mormon Journal
  Don’t Cry for Craig Ann Gray
  “Get off the Tracks!” Wendy R. Rudder
  Broke, Broken, and Out of Work Susan H. Aylworth

• Handbook for Families: Teaching Children about Forgiveness

• Portraits
  Richard Cowan: Man of Uncommon Vision Cynthia M. Gardner
  Glen L. Taggart: Educator with a Global View Nanette Larsen

• Speaking Today: The Magnificence of Man
  Elder Russell M. Nelson

• The Visiting Teacher: “Charity Suffereth Long, and Is Kind”

• Random Sampler
  Germs in the Church Nursery and Other Scary Stories
  The $5 Challenge
  Mom’s Night at the “Genny”
  Charting Our New Year’s Resolutions

• News of the Church

• Poetry
  The Nurturing Muriel Jenkins Heal
  Let Us Not Wait Audrey Megerian

On the cover: Nephi’s Vision, by Clark Kelley Price, 24″ by 36″, oil on canvas, 1980. Courtesy of Carl Spoerl.

Inside front cover: The Worth of Souls is Great, by Judith Mehr, 30″ by 24″, oil, 1982. Courtesy of LDS General Sunday School Presidency.

Inside back cover: Searching the Scriptures, by Judith Mehr, 30″ x 24″, oil, 1982. Courtesy of LDS General Sunday School Presidency.