Ensign

April 1999

Volume 29 Number 4

Contents

• First Presidency Message: The Price of Discipleship

  President James E. Faust

• Poetry

• “I Am He”

  Jonathan H. Stephenson

• The Third Commandment

  Ester Rasband

• Why Baptism Is Not Enough

  Elder David E. Sorensen

• The Wrong Room at the Right Time

  Brenda Harker

• “Anxious to Bless the Whole Human Race”

  Neil K. Newell

• Spain: Exploring Horizons of Faith

  Don L. Searle

• “I’ll Go Where You Want Me to Go”

• How Captain Moroni Helped My Marriage

  Michelle H. Bagley

• I Have to Forgive Him?

  Name Withheld

• Train Up a Child

  John W. and Marjorie E. Hasler

• I Have a Question

  • How to determine relationships between distant cousins

    Elizabeth L. Nichols

  • What it means to be the “salt of the earth”

    LeGrand L. Baker

• Random Sampler

• Mormon Journal

  • More Blessings Than I Could Receive

    Lee Hill

  • The Note That Changed Me

    Kenichiro Kimura, as told to Kiyoshi Sakai

  • Why Call Julie?

    Ruth Harris Swaner

  • Could I Cope with My Children?

    Name Withheld

  • Comfort across the Miles

    Beth Dayley

  • Go Back to the Beginning

    Mable Jensen

• Reawakening My Father’s Testimony

  Ashley J. Hall

• Portraits

• The Visiting Teacher: Teaching Family Members Righteous Principles

• Latter-day Counsel: Excerpts from Recent Addresses of President Gordon B. Hinckley

• Auxiliary Perspectives

• News of the Church

On the covers: Front: Our Savior, by David Lindsley, oil on canvas, 24″ x 30″, 1998. Back: Jesus Goes Out to Bethany, by James Tissot (1836–1902), gouache on paper board, 7′ x 11′. Original art at the Brooklyn Museum.

Inside front: Lands of the Dead, by R. Todd Stilson, oil on panel, 15″ x 11″, 1995. Courtesy of Museum of Church History and Art. As in mortality, so is it beyond the veil, for as President Joseph F. Smith recorded, messengers in the spirit world are “clothed with power and authority, and commissioned … to go forth and carry the light of the gospel to them that [are] in darkness, even to all the spirits of men; and thus [is] the gospel preached to the dead” (D&C 138:30).

Inside back: Missouri Burning, by Glen S. Hopkinson, oil on canvas, 40″ x 30″, 1998. This painting depicts events that occurred on 20 July 1833 in Independence, Missouri. Mobbers set fire to the Church’s printing establishment, which was home to W. W. Phelps, and later that day beat, tarred, and feathered Bishop Edward Partridge and Church member Charles Allen. Today, more than 165 years later, Church members and Missouri citizens enjoy impressive friendship and understanding.