Ensign

July 1979

Volume 9 Number 7

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: “The Uttermost Parts of the Earth”
  President Spencer W. Kimball

• When Members Have Long-Term Needs
  Janet Brigham and Terry Moyer

• Keeping in Touch with Feelings
  C. Richard Chidester

• Forewarning Your Children: Arming Them Against Temptation
  Eric and Sandra Stephan

• Inquiry beyond Reason
  Robert J. Bazyk

• Midlife Report
  Carlfred B. Broderick

• Line upon Line
  James B. Allen

• The Bible and Its Role in the Restoration
  Robert J. Matthews

• Jedediah and Heber Grant
  Ronald W. Walker

• The Mormon Battalion: An Acceptable Sacrifice
  Larry D. Christiansen

• The Mormon Battalion March, 1846–47
  Stanley B. Kimball

• Elizabeth Francis Yates: Trial by Heartbreak
  Lavina Fielding Anderson

• Regular Features

• I Have a Question
  H. Dean Garrett
  Robert D. Goodwin

• Mirthright

• Poetry
  Pioneers Cynthia Mallory Gardner
  Beyond Our Works and Days Arthur Henry King

• Random Sampler

• Speaking Today: Bridging Cultural Differences
  Eric B. Shumway

• The Best Thing We’ve Done

• Keeping Pace

• Comment

• News of the Church

On the cover: Sunset on Utah Lake, J. B. Fairbanks, 21″ by 34″, oil on canvas, 1909. Located in the Springville Museum of Art, Springville, Utah.

Inside front cover: Sao Paulo Temple. Photography by Renato G. R. Frota.

Inside back cover: C. C. A. Christensen’s Panorama #4, Mobs Attack the First Settlement in Jackson County, 1833 (above). Christensen’s Panorama #5, Settling Missouri (below).