Ensign

July 2001

Volume 31 Number 7

Contents

• First Presidency Message: Pornography, the Deadly Carrier

  President Thomas S. Monson

• A Life Founded in Light and Truth

  Elder Henry B. Eyring

• The Power of Hymns

  Elder Merrill J. Bateman

• Blessed by a Hymn

• Taking the Scriptures to the World

• One-on-One with Dad

  Thomas B. Holman

• Choosing Eternity

  Sheryle Wickman

• Anson Call: Man of Action

  Thaya Eggleston Gilmore

• From High Hopes to Despair: The Missouri Period, 1831–39

  Alexander L. Baugh

• Lessons from the Experience

  Max H Parkin

• Latter-day Saint Voices

  • My Mentor

    Joaquín Fenollar Bataller

  • A Friend to Ease Our Burden

    Janeen Aggen

  • The Hidden Book

    Ruth Dorsett

  • Trusting the Rest to the Lord

    Rondie S. Rudolph

  • I Saw Beyond the Prison Bars

    Pat Anderson

• Need a Family Discussion? Try a Church Magazine

  G. G. Vandagriff

• Latter-day Counsel

• Could I Learn to Forgive?

  Reneé Roy Harding

• Visiting Teaching Message: Blessing Our Lives and Homes with Sacred Music

• Random Sampler

• A Better Mother, with the Lord’s Help

  Cheryl Cole Burr

• News of the Church

• Making the Most of This Issue

On the covers: Front: Photo of scriptures by Matt Reier. Image composed electronically. [illustration] Back: Detail from The Second Coming, by Harry Anderson.

Inside front: The Chosen Seer and the “Well-Beloved Brother,” by Robert T. Barrett, oil on canvas, 15″ x 21″, 1999. The Prophet Joseph Smith and President Brigham Young each drew strength from their association. The Prophet came to rely on the man called in revelation “Dear and well-beloved brother, Brigham Young” (D&C 126:1). President Young testified that his leader “was all that any man could believe him to be, as a true Prophet” (Manuscript History of Brigham Young, 1801–1844, ed. Elden J. Watson [1968], 4).

Inside back: Carry On, by Glen S. Hopkinson, oil on canvas, 30″ x 40″, 1997. Courtesy of M. Anthony and Joyce Burns. As Latter-day Saint pioneers migrated westward, the Lord counseled that special provisions be made for widows and families without fathers (see D&C 136:8). Pioneer women were called upon to show great courage, resourcefulness, and stamina as they helped move their families to settlements in the western United States.