1972

April 1972

  • Contents

  • Contents

  • Feedback

  • The Story of a Prophet’s Madness

    Bruce R. McConkie

  • Q&A: Questions and Answers

    • What should our attitude be regarding zodiac signs, astrology, and horoscopes?

      A. Burt Horsley

    • Is a person better off if he rebels and then repents or if he never rebels at all?

      Lowell L. Bennion

    • Who establishes Church dress standards?

      Carol H. Cannon

    • What are the requirements in preparing for a patriarchal blessing?

      Carl Ringger

  • Start the World; I Want to Get On

    Charleen Hurson

  • Three Gardens

    Dennis Rasmussen

  • An Interview with Famed Explorer Thor Heyerdahl

  • Inside a House of the Lord

  • Change the “N” to a “D”

    Peggy Hawkins

  • On Cheating Yourself

    Spencer W. Kimball

  • FYI: For Your Information

  • Become a Ham and Discover Worldwide Friends

    David Horne

  • It’s My Decision

    Elwood R. Peterson

  • Poetry

    • The Test

      Julie Ann Hill

  • Righteousness As a Counterculture

    Gordon C. Thomasson

  • A Puzzlement: Scriptural Doubles

    John A. Tvedtnes

The Test
April 1972


“The Test,” New Era, Apr. 1972, 45

The Test

by Julie Ann Hill

Hurry here, hurry there;

No time for fun.

Homework is waiting;

Assignments undone.

Meetings to go to;

Not enough sleep.

Can’t crawl out

For I’m in too deep.

And to top off the worry,

The pressure, the strife,

Is the panicky feeling

That I’m flunking life.