Ensign

December 1972

Volume 2 Number 12

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: Find the Answers in the Scriptures
  President Harold B. Lee

• The Gifts of Christmas
  Elder John A. Widtsoe

• Cunén Christmas
  James L. Ficklin

• Pointers for Parents: Creating Your Own Christmas Spirit

• “Dear Mom: Send Cookies!”
  Jean Hedengren Moultrie

• Search the Scriptures
  Jay M. Todd

• Prophecies and Promises of the Doctrine and Covenants
  Rodney Turner

• What the Scriptures Say about Being a Husband
  Neil J. Flinders

• The Pearl of Great Price: A Unique Scripture
  James R. Harris

• What the Scriptures Say about Being a Wife
  Margery S. Cannon

• What the Scriptures Say about Rearing Children
  Robert J. Matthews

• Imagery of the Master
  Don O. Thorpe and Jay M. Todd

• The Sermon on the Mount
  David H. Yarn, Jr.

• What the Scriptures Say about Pursuit of Wealth
  Quinn G. McKay

• Joseph Smith’s Inspired Translation of the Bible
  Robert J. Matthews

• What the Scriptures Say about Suffering
  Arthur R. Bassett

• The Book of Mormon Goes to Press
  Gayle Goble Ord

• What the Scriptures Say about Happiness
  Arthur R. Bassett

• The Game’s in the Name
  Robert E. Parsons

• The Old Testament Speaks Today
  W. Cleon Skousen

• What the Scriptures Mean to Me
  Rafael Alberto Galindez
  J. Stan Marquiss
  Mrs. Lodemez Clara
  Cecily Sim
  Dorothy Kaye Wallace
  Edna O. F. Shaw
  Peter Mourik
  Paul G. Sheldon
  William Ladd Hollist
  Isaac Swartzberg
  J. Talmage Jones
  Anita Miller
  Stephen D. McKasson

• Regular Features

• Fiction: Our First Christmas Eve
  Nancy French

• News of the Church

• After All

• Books

• Our Readers Write

On the cover: Photographs by Don O. Thorpe representing imagery in the sayings of Jesus are featured on this month’s cover and the inside front and back covers. A special feature with additional photographs begins on page 36.

Inside front cover: Photograph by Don O. Thorpe

Inside back cover: Photograph by Don O. Thorpe