“Contents,” New Era, Mar. 1984
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The Message: Overcoming DiscouragementElder Jacob de Jager
Participatory Journalism: LifelineElizabeth Swilley
Q&A: Questions and AnswersVerl F. Scott Lindsay R. Curtis
Mormonisms
FYI: For Your Information
In Tune: A Missionary’s Prayer (I Will Go and Do)Janice Kapp Perry
Classic Discourses: Struggle for the SoulElder Melvin J. Ballard
Photo of the MonthEarnest Glazener
Feature Articles
In Memoriam: By His Words—Elder Mark E. Petersen
SecretsCarol Lynn Pearson
The HomecomingRichard M. Romney
Sons and Daughters of the Midnight SunJanet Thomas
Fiction and Poetry
BackfireSherrie Johnson
To Mom and DadEllen Fagg
Cover: For the Richard Corbin family, the pain of being apart melts away in a warm embrace when Dad comes home from the sea. See story, p. 20. (Photos by Jed Clark and Richard M. Romney.)