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Volume 44, no. 3, (c) 2005
The cover of this issue of BYU Studies is a painting created for a
competition hosted by the World Family Policy Center, located at BYU.
The painting conveys the importance of each member of a family. This
cover illustrates the message of the first article, "The Principles of
the Proclamation: Ten Years of Hope," by Richard G. Wilkins. Professor
Wilkins explains how he used the Proclamation on the Family to guide
his efforts in international agencies to preserve the rights of
families.

The article "'Line upon Line, Precept upon Precept:' Reflections on
the 1877 Commencement of the Performance of Endowments and Sealings
for the Dead" by Richard E. Bennett, is the first thorough treatment
of the institution of that practice.

Robin Scott Jensen's article relates the story of Martin Harris's
short mission to England for James Strang's faction of the church.
Although Harris served as a leader in Strang's group, Harris failed to
convince the English members to join with Strang and could only bear
his strong testimony of Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon.

In their penchant for historical photographs that tell a story,
Richard Neitzel Holzapfel and Robert F. Schwartz publish George Edward
Anderson=EF=BF=BDs photographs of the dedication of the Oliver Cowdery
monument in Richmond, Missouri. Junius F. Wells worked for months
doing the background work to have the monument erected and
appropriately dedicated by Elder Heber J. Grant. (Link to additonal
photographs for this article).

Englishman Peter J. Vousden shares the story of how the Church used
the Great Exhibition of 1851 to build up the branches in London. The
story continues to the present, as today's Hyde Park meetinghouse has
a connection to that international exhibition.

Articles:
The Principles of the Proclamation: Ten Years of Hope,
by Richard G. Wilkins

'Line upon Line, Precept upon Precept:' Reflections on the 1877
Commencement of the Performance of Endowments and Sealings for the
Dead,
by Richard E. Bennett

A Witness in England: Martin Harris and the Strangite Mission,
by Robin Scott Jensen

The Dedication of the Oliver Cowdery Monument in Richmond, Missouri, 1911,
by Richard Neitzel Holzapfel and Robert F. Schwartz

London Missionaries and the Great Exhibition of 1851,
by Peter J. Vousden

The Little and Gardner Hymnal, 1844: A Study of Its Origin and
Contribution to the LDS Musical Canon,
by Marilyn J. Crandall

The Psalm 22:16 Controversy: New Evidence from the Dead Sea Scrolls,
by Shon Hopkin

Book Reviews:
Radical Origins: Early Mormon Converts and Their Colonial Ancestors,
by Val D. Rust
reviewed by Stephen J. Fleming

Radical Origins: Early Mormon Converts and Their Colonial Ancestors,
by Val D. Rust
reviewed by Jenny Hale Pulsipher

God on the Quad: How Religious Colleges and the Missionary Generation
Are Changing America, by Naomi Schaefer Riley
reviewed by Patrick Q. Mason

American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a National Icon, by Stephen Proth=
ero,
reviewed by Patrick Q. Mason

Book Notice
Early Christians in Disarray: Contemporary LDS Perspectives on the
Christian Apostasy

Cover Image
Guardians of the Family, by Shannon Christensen