“Contents,” Ensign, July 1977, 1 Ensign July 1977 Volume 7 Number 7 Contents First Presidency Message: The Gospel Vision of the ArtsPresident Spencer W. Kimball Architecture First of the Modern TemplesPaul L. Anderson Fiction Gert FramByron Walley Day of the StrangersLael J. Littke Connie’s TuesdayAfton Day SouvenirDon Marshall Drama Rag MissionBrian Green Music Singing Hymns with New PowerClayne Robison As the Shadows FallLowell M. Durham, Jr., and Lowell M. Durham Our Heaven Is Our HomeMarilyn McMeen Miller Brown and Dennis L. Crockett Our Savior’s Love Edward L. Hart and Crawford Gates I Have Two EarsGeorgia Maeser and A. Laurence Lyon Painting A Portfolio of Mormon Painters Peter, James, and John Ordaining Joseph and OliverMinerva K. Teichert Joseph Rebuking the GuardsDanquart Weggeland Building the Nauvoo TempleGary E. Smith Emigration of the SaintsC. C. A. Christensen HaymakingLorus Pratt Augusta Natural BridgeH. L. A. Culmer FishingA. B. Wright Pioneer RelicJ. T. Harwood Country FuneralLeConte Stewart George Albert Smith John Hafen The Green BagLee Greene Richards Navajo Woman and GoatsMahonri M. Young Country FairB. F. Larsen Mother and ChildMary Teasdel BlessingTrevor Southey Edgemont TreehouseDale T. Fletcher Poetry To a Dying GirlClinton F. Larson DeliveranceMarylou Cunningham Leavitt Looking WestOrson Scott Card Late WaitingEmma Lou Thayne Too Late on Father’s DayMarden Clark WoodcraftKaren Mikkelsen Seven-year-oldElisabeth J. Hall Beyond Our Works and DaysArthur Henry King True PrayerPaul James Toscano On Peaches DaysMarilyn McMeen Miller Brown Sandstone ChapelDon Jenkins Being Worth Our SaltDianne Dibb Forbis The ClotheslineLinda Madsen Sheffield Poetry From Our Past Rejoice, My Soul, RejoiceReba Beebe Pratt I Want to Be Close to YouLouisa L. Greene Richards To Mrs. V. KimballEliza R. Snow Peace Is in Your TearsClaire Stewart Boyer PartingCharles W. Penrose WaitingOrson F. Whitney General Family ArtOrson Scott Card Baskets and Dancing BlanketsRichard G. Oman “Virtuous, Lovely, or of Good Report”: How the Church Has Fostered the ArtsRonald W. Walker and D. Michael Quinn News of the Church On the cover: The Pioneers of 1847 Crossing the Platte River, by Danquart Weggeland, 108″ x 72″, 1869, Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museum, Salt Lake City; reproduced courtesy of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers. Inside front cover: The Rod and the Veil, by Franz Johansen. “The figure reaching through the veil suggests those in the spirit world concerned about our progress in mortality; the iron rod itself, reaching into both spheres, is the sure guide through mortality upon which all of us, like the slipping boy, must struggle to retain a firm grip.” (1975, 9′ x 11′, fiberglass resin, Brigham Young University permanent collection.) Inside back cover: Alberta Temple