New Era

March 1984

Volume 14, Number 2

Contents

• Feedback

• The Message: Overcoming Discouragement
  Elder Jacob de Jager

• Participatory Journalism: Lifeline
  Elizabeth Swilley

• Q&A: Questions and Answers
  Verl 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 Soul
  Elder Melvin J. Ballard

• Photo of the Month
  Earnest Glazener

• Feature Articles

• In Memoriam: By His Words—Elder Mark E. Petersen

• Secrets
  Carol Lynn Pearson

• The Homecoming
  Richard M. Romney

• Sons and Daughters of the Midnight Sun
  Janet Thomas

• Fiction and Poetry

• Backfire
  Sherrie Johnson

• To Mom and Dad
  Ellen 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.)