Ensign

October 1978

Volume 8 Number 10

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: A Practical Religion
  President N. Eldon Tanner

• “Sir, We Would See Jesus”
  David A. Whetten

• Getting—and Keeping—the Family Together
  Marvin K. Gardner

• We Started Talking about Ideas—Again
  Susan Arrington Hill

• Berlin Miracle
  Karola Hilbert Reece as told to Dora Flack

• Relief Society Keeps Me Singing
  Patricia W. Higbee

• Explaining Death to Children
  Jon M. Taylor

• My Father’s Formula
  Henry Eyring

• I Wanted a Burning Bush
  Robert E. McGhee

• The Saints around the World: Strong Saints in Scotland
  Muriel Cuthbert

• The Joseph Knight Family
  Larry Porter

• When Stanton Needed Help
  Diana McFarland Brown

• Regular Features

• I Have a Question
  Joe J. Christensen
  Susan H. Aylworth
  H. Donl Peterson

• Mirthright

• Comment

• Random Sampler

• Speaking Today: The Prohibitive Costs of a Value-free Society
  Elder Neal A. Maxwell

• News of the Church

On the cover: Harvest Scene, 22″ x 36″, oil on canvas, Beehive House, Salt Lake City (Church Historical Department Collection). This unsigned work has been variously attributed to Lorus Pratt (1855–1923) and fellow Utah artist John Hafen (1856–1910).

Inside front cover: The Savior Visits with Mary and Martha, Minerva Teichert, 46″ x 96″, oil on canvas, Brigham Young University Collection.

Inside back cover: Herod’s Temple, Edward D. Maryon, 84″ x 168″, oil on canvas, Visitors’ Center South, Temple Square. The original of this enlargement is displayed in the Independence, Missouri, Visitors’ Center.