How To Search the Ensign Magazine

"There are several ways you can look for material on specific topics in the Ensign online.

• • Go to ensign.lds.org. There are links to the monthly First Presidency and visiting teaching messages, to other articles, and to information on how to subscribe or submit material to the magazine. You can reach the same page by going to LDS.org, selecting Gospel Library, then Magazines, then from the left-hand pane select Ensign.
  
• • You can select either Past Issues or Search Ensign to begin your search. Select Past Issues if you know the date of the item you are seeking. You will be able to select the year of publication, then the month, then the name of the article from the table of contents for that month.
  
• • Select Search Ensign from the left-hand pane to look for material by topic. You will be able to enter key words in a search box to bring up a list of articles on a topic, or to look for a particular article. The more specific your key words, the more likely you are to find the desired article. For example, entering “Ezra Taft Benson pride cleansing” immediately turns up a link to “Cleansing the Inner Vessel,” by President Benson in the May 1986 magazine.
  
• • Would you like to see the article as it looked on the magazine page? From the LDS.org home page, select Gospel Library, then Media Formats, then PDF. Click on the Ensign magazine and you will then be able to select a year as far back as 2001. After you click on a year, click on the cover of a magazine. You will see a larger picture of that cover with a table of contents pane on the left of your screen. In that table of contents, you will find a link to the first page of the article you want."

by Don L. Searle
Ensign
Your Guide to Using the Ensign
January, 2010