Ensign

August 1999

Volume 29 Number 8

Contents

• First Presidency Message: Lost Horizons

  President James E. Faust

• “Judge Not” and Judging

  Elder Dallin H. Oaks

• Sunday School: Oil for Our Lamps

  Elder Harold G. Hillam

• My Route to Safety

  Jennifer MacKenzie Quist

• Paul: Untiring Witness of Christ

  David Rolph Seely and Jo Ann H. Seely

• A Widow’s Prayer

  Blanche M. Hollingsworth

• Finding Peace in the Tops of the Mountains

  Paul H. Peterson

• Images of an Era: Finding Peace

• A Look at the Church: 1844–1898

• From Denmark to Zion

  LaRene Porter Gaunt

• Poetry

• The Visiting Teacher: With a Grateful Heart

• A Home of Our Own

  Laurel Young Stoddard

• “Welcome to the Ward”

  Rebecca M. Taylor

• Mormon Journal

  • The Record Box

    Diane LaMae Craig

  • I Set My Sights on the Temple

    Dahnelle H. Overly

  • From Addiction to Conversion

    Name Withheld

  • Drive Off the Road—Now!

    Gaye Galt

  • “Go Comfort Him”

    Todd Dunn

  • My Grandmother’s Locket

    Ruth Harris Swaner

• I Have a Question

  • Why the witness of Christ and His mission is much clearer in the Book of Mormon than the Old Testament

    Kent P. Jackson

• Portraits

• Random Sampler

• Priesthood Perspectives

• News of the Church

On the covers: Front and back: Teach the Children of Men by the Power of My Spirit, by Greg K. Olsen, oil on canvas, 36″ x 66″, 1986.

Inside front: Leaving Nauvoo, February 1846, by Glen S. Hopkinson, oil on canvas, 15″ x 30″, 1996. Courtesy of Chuck and Jennifer Adair. Looking west on Parley Street in Nauvoo, with a blacksmith shop (center) and Seventies Hall (left) in the background, this scene depicts pioneer preparations for the first group’s exodus to Iowa in February 1846.

Inside back: Monnow River, by Frank Magleby, oil on panel, 36″ x 48″, 1994. This modern-day scene of Skenfrith, a village in eastern Wales, shows the Monnow River, where 19th-century Church converts were baptized.