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August 2005

Volume 35, Number 8

Contents

• First Presidency Message: A Testimony Vibrant and True

  President Gordon B. Hinckley

• A Consistent Prophetic Call

• Gospel Classics: The Book of Mormon

  President Marion G. Romney

• Embracing Members with Special Needs

• Strengthening the Family: Within the Bonds of Matrimony

• Messages from the Doctrine and Covenants: Abiding in the Marriage Covenant

  Elder W. Douglas Shumway

• My Maturing Views of Grace

  E. Richard Packham

• A Child without a Name

  ShiShiqua Zoilo Long

• Doctrine and Covenants Times at a Glance, Chart 2: Sections 65–137

• Building Hope in the Inner City

  Mary R. Pedersen and Marissa A. Widdison

• Picturing the Past

• Messages from the Doctrine and Covenants: Family History Changed My Life

  Elder Carlos A. Pérez

• I Found It!

• The Quorums of the Seventy

  Elder Earl C. Tingey

• We Wouldn’t Have Missed It for the World

  Janice Kapp Perry

• Fighting Internet Filth

  Mario Hipol

• Infertility, Faith, and Personal Growth

  Stacy Muramoto Harline

• Visiting Teaching Message: Rejoice in an Understanding of the Purpose of Life

• The Doctrinal Foundation of the Auxiliaries

  Elder Richard G. Scott

• Latter-day Saint Voices

• Random Sampler

• News of the Church

• Making the Most of This Issue

On the cover: Front: Painting by Jeffrey Hein. Back: Photography by Welden C. Andersen, Craig Dimond, and Don O. Thorpe.

Inside front cover: First Edition of the Book of Mormon. The publication of the Book of Mormon, as exemplified by this first edition copy, was in fulfillment of prophecy: “And it shall come to pass that the Lord God shall bring forth unto you the words of a book, … and in the book shall be a revelation from God” (2 Ne. 27:6–7; see also Isa. 29). “And after having received the record of the Nephites, yea, even my servant Joseph Smith, Jun., might have power to translate through the mercy of God, by the power of God, the Book of Mormon” (D&C 1:29).

Inside back cover: Tell John I Died with My Face toward Zion, by Clark Kelley Price. May not be copied. James Steele shades the face of Mary Murray Murdoch, known lovingly as “Wee Granny.” Mary’s physical strength carried her only to Chimney Rock, Nebraska, but her spiritual strength was manifest in her request to have the Steeles tell her son John that she died facing Zion. That testimony still burns in the hearts of her posterity.