Ensign

May 1971

Volume 1 Number 5

Contents

• Regular Features

• First Presidency Message: The Most Important Knowledge
  President Joseph Fielding Smith

• The Spoken Word
  Elder Richard L. Evans

• Guatemala
  Wendell J. Ashton

• Our Readers Write

• Religion in the World

• Programs and Policies Newsletter

• Today’s Family
  Conducted by Mabel Jones Gabbott

• After All

• Editorial: The Meaning of Education

• Faith/Doctrine/History

• Keeping the Sabbath Day Holy
  Elder Ezra Taft Benson

• Classics in Mormon Thought: The King Follett Sermon
  Joseph Smith, Jr. (1805–1844)

• Cast Your Bread
  Richard H. Cracroft

• Youth Away From Home
  Elwood R. Peterson

• Human Relations/Teaching

• In Quest of the One
  Robert L. Egbert

• Turning the Heart of a Father
  Owen C. Bennion

• Of Books, Children, and Parents
  Elliott D. Landau

• Education and the Church
  M. Dallas Burnett

• Brigham Young University
  Ernest L. Wilkinson

• Ricks College
  John L. Clarke

• Church College of Hawaii
  Owen J. Cook

• Post-High-School Alternatives
  Steve Hale

• Keeping Up with the Joneses: A Real Danger
  Quinn G. McKay and William A. Tilleman

• Contemporary Issues

• Realities of the Population Explosion
  Philip F. Low

• Eastern Orthodoxy
  Milton V. Backman, Jr.

• A Visit with a Patriarch
  Leon R. Hartshorn

• Patchwork
  Edythe K. Watson

• Food ’n Fun in Iowa
  Mildred Barthel

• Fiction/Poetry

• Fiction: The First Sunday
  Douglas H. Thayer

• Poetry
  John D. Engle, Jr.
  Paul Armstrong
  Emma Lou W. Thayne
  Maureen Cannon
  Donna Dickey Guyer

Cover Note: The direction and philosophy of education in the Church are featured in the Ensign this month, starting on page 34. Cover photographs showing samples of the activity were taken by Harold Johnson, Bruce Christensen, Jerry Harvey, and Eldon Linschoten.