New Era

September 1987

Volume 17, Number 9

Contents

• Departments

• Feedback

• The Message: In Control
  Elder Robert E. Wells

• Missionary Focus: Waiting with Wheat
  Daniel Billin

• Mormonisms

• Scripture Lifeline: What Am I Doing Wrong?
  Carl Houghton

• Classic Discourses: The Protection of All Flesh
  G. Homer Durham

• FYI: For Your Information

• Photo of the Month
  Tad Clayton

• Feature Articles

• Calling a Square a Square
  Jack S. Marshall

• Youth in Motion, Youth in Touch
  Richard M. Romney

• Weewaas and Woggles: Scouting, Canadian-Style
  Richard M. Romney

• Royal Commoners
  Anne Bradshaw

• The 1988 New Era Writing, Art, Photography, and Music Contest: As the Sand of the Sea

• Needs
  Elder Derek A. Cuthbert

• Fiction and Poetry

• Miss Whitney’s B
  Alma J. Yates

• Time and Again
  Frances Hall

Cover: Mounted Police on parade add to the sense of adventure for LDS youth in British Columbia, Canada, where life is a wonderful world of color and motion. See story, p. 20. (Photography by Richard M. Romney.)