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Contents
April 2000


“Contents,” Ensign, Apr. 2000, 1

Ensign

April 2000

Volume 30 Number 4

On the covers: Front and back: Beside Still Waters, by Simon Dewey, acrylic on canvas, 30″ x 45″, 1999. Courtesy of Altus Fine Art.

Inside front: Sacred Grove, by Frank Magleby, oil on gesso panel, 36″ x 48″, 1995. Located near Palmyra, New York, in Manchester Township, the Sacred Grove is part of the forested area that covered the 100-acre Joseph Smith Sr. farm. There the 14-year-old Joseph went to pray: “After I had retired to the place where I had previously designed to go, having looked around me, and finding myself alone, I kneeled down and began to offer up the desires of my heart to God” (JS—H 1:15).

Inside back: Christ Changing Water to Wine, by Robert T. Barrett, oil on board, 12″ x 12″, 1997. At a wedding festivity in Cana of Galilee, Mary saw the need for more wine and turned to Jesus for help. He respectfully replied, “Woman, what wilt thou have me to do for thee? that will I do; for mine hour is not yet come” (JST, John 2:4, footnote a). The Lord then turned water into wine.