Ensign

May 1978

Volume 8 Number 5

Contents

• Report of the 148th Annual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

• Saturday Morning Session

• The True Way of Life and Salvation
  President Spencer W. Kimball

• No Time for Contention
  Elder Marvin J. Ashton

• The Women of God
  Elder Neal A. Maxwell

• “The Morning Breaks; the Shadows Flee”
  Elder Bruce R. McConkie

• “Ye Shall Know the Truth”
  President N. Eldon Tanner

• Saturday afternoon session

• Statistical Report 1977
  Brother Francis M. Gibbons

• Church Finance Committee Report
  Brother Wilford G. Edling

• The Sustaining of Church Officers
  President N. Eldon Tanner

• The Prayer of Faith
  Elder Thomas S. Monson

• The Primary Enriches the Lives of Children
  Elder David B. Haight

• Grieve Not the Holy Spirit, Lest We Lose It
  Elder James A. Cullimore

• Staying Unspotted from the World
  Elder George P. Lee

• Decision
  Elder Eldred G. Smith

• “I Did Not Reach This Place by Myself”
  Elder Ronald E. Poelman

• “May the Kingdom of God Go Forth”
  President Ezra Taft Benson

• Priesthood Session

• “Bind on Thy Sandals”
  Elder Howard W. Hunter

• “Not My Will, but Thine”
  Elder Robert L. Simpson

• Revelation
  Elder Henry D. Taylor

• Priesthood Responsibilities
  President Marion G. Romney

• Worthy of Proper Recommendation
  President N. Eldon Tanner

• Strengthening the Family—the Basic Unit of the Church
  President Spencer W. Kimball

• Sunday Morning Session

• Prayer and Revelation
  President Marion G. Romney

• “Trust in the Lord”
  Elder L. Tom Perry

• “What Is Truth?”
  Elder John H. Vandenberg

• Making Your Marriage Successful
  Elder O. Leslie Stone

• “Be Not Faithless”
  Elder Gordon B. Hinckley

• Sunday aternoon session

• “Evidence of Things Not Seen”
  Elder Mark E. Petersen

• Seek Out Your Spiritual Leader
  Elder Gene R. Cook

• The Poetry of Success
  Elder Sterling W. Sill

• Being “Anxiously Engaged”
  Elder Joseph Anderson

• What Would the Savior Have Me Do?
  Elder Derek A. Cuthbert

• Everything Dear
  Elder Robert L. Backman

• Response to the Call
  Elder Rex C. Reeve

• The Second Coming of Christ
  Elder LeGrand Richards

• Listen to the Prophets
  President Spencer W. Kimball

• Welfare Session

• Becoming the Pure in Heart
  President Spencer W. Kimball

• The Storehouse Resource System
  Bishop J. Richard Clarke

• In the Time of Old Age
  Sister Barbara B. Smith

• Welfare Services Begins with You
  Elder A. Theodore Tuttle

• A Haven of Love
  Bishop Victor L. Brown

• Solving Emotional Problems in the Lord’s Own Way
  Elder Boyd K. Packer

• We Are His Stewards
  President N. Eldon Tanner

• The Royal Law of Love
  President Marion G. Romney

• General Conference Music

• Living the Gospel in the Home
  President Spencer W. Kimball

• News of the Church
  Biographies of New General Authorities
  Highlights of the Regional Representatives Seminar

• The St. George Temple

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On the cover: Garden Tomb, Jerusalem; photography by Eldon K. Linschoten.

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Back cover: Jerusalem, misted at dawn’s early light, above; the Garden Tomb, Jerusalem.

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Inside front cover: Jesus Appearing to the Five Hundred, Grant Romney Clawson 96″ x 124 1/2″, oil on canvas, Temple Square Visitors’ Center.

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Inside back cover: St. George, Utah, Temple; photography by Eldon K. Linschoten.

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Photography in this issue: Featured in this issue are (1) photographs taken at the sessions of this general conference, the scenes, settings, and faces of April 1978; (2) photographs of the Relief Society Building, Salt Lake City; (3) portraits of the General Authorities who spoke in each session. Photography is by Public Communications Photo Services: Eldon K. Linschoten, chief photographer; Jed A. Clark, Marilyn L. Erd, and Eric W. White.