“Contents,” Ensign, Dec. 1979, 1 Ensign December 1979 Volume 9 Number 12 Contents Special Features First Presidency Message: The Consequences of Choosing UnbeliefPresident N. Eldon Tanner What Parents Can Do … Before the Call ComesMarvin K. Gardner “Good Tidings of Great Joy”: A Readers Theater on the Mission of ChristJean S. Marshall Personal IntegrityDavid M. Kennedy Courtship: Labor of LoveGawain and Gayle Wells The British Legacy in the ChurchThe Kingdom Builders James R. MossThe Way It Looks Today: A Camera Tour of Church History Sites in Great BritainPreston’s Proud Saints Roger J. KendleIn the Crucible: Early British Saints Lavina Fielding Anderson Louie Bouton Felt: A Friend of ChildrenPatricia Mann Alto Regular Features Mormon Journal“Honey, I Have Good News!” Elissa J. PoulsenChristmas, Second Time Around Steve D. HansonChristmas Eve Miracle Alda McDonald Strebel I Have a QuestionClifford J. StrattonJ. Lewis Taylor PoetryThe Question of Old Trees Emma Lou ThayneAltered Course Susan SavageSunrise on Christmas Eugene England Random Sampler Keeping Pace The Best Thing We’ve Done Insights Comment News of the Church On the cover: Tracting on Christmas Eve, by Richard Murray, 1979, oil on canvas, 18″ x 24″. (Courtesy of Soter Associates, Inc., Provo, Utah.) Inside front cover: Christmas Eve on South Temple, 1900, by Ken Baxter, 1979, oil on canvas, 18″ x 24″. (Courtesy of Soter Associates, Inc., Provo, Utah.) Inside back cover: C. C. A. Christensen’s Panorama #14, The Mob Storms Carthage Jail, (above). C. C. A. Christensen’s Panorama #15, Joseph Smith Lies Martyred Outside Carthage Jail, (below).