Ensign

May 1980

Volume 10 Number 5

Contents

• Report of the 150th Annual Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

• Saturday Morning Session

• “No Unhallowed Hand Can Stop the Work”
  President Spencer W. Kimball

• Preparing the Way
  Elder Thomas S. Monson

• “He Is Not Here. He Is Risen”
  Elder David B. Haight

• Communion with the Holy Spirit
  Elder James E. Faust

• Celestial Marriages and Eternal Families
  President N. Eldon Tanner

• Saturday Afternoon Session, April 5, 1980

• Church Finance Committee Report

• Statistical Report 1979

• The Sustaining of Church Officers

• The Scriptures Speak
  Elder LeGrand Richards

• God Will Have a Tried People
  Elder Howard W. Hunter

• Do We All Believe in the Same God?
  Elder F. Enzio Busche

• Willing to Receive
  Elder Marion D. Hanks

• A Marvelous Work and a Wonder
  President Ezra Taft Benson

• Priesthood Session

• The Prophet and the Prison
  Elder Marvin J. Ashton

• Time-Out!
  Elder Paul H. Dunn

• Eternal Links That Bind
  Elder A. Theodore Tuttle

• Salt of the Earth: Savor of Men and Saviors of Men
  Elder Carlos E. Asay

• You Can Be the Voice
  Elder M. Russell Ballard

• Teaching by the Spirit
  Elder W. Grant Bangerter

• Writing Your Personal and Family History
  Elder John H. Groberg

• Seek the Spirit
  President Marion G. Romney

• Sunday Morning Session

• Introduction to the Proclamation
  President Spencer W. Kimball

• Proclamation
  From the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

• Remarks and Dedication of the Fayette, New York, Buildings
  President Spencer W. Kimball

• “What Hath God Wrought through His Servant Joseph!”
  Elder Gordon B. Hinckley

• A Tribute to the Rank and File of the Church
  Elder Boyd K. Packer

• The Book of Mormon
  President Marion G. Romney

• Sunday Afternoon Session

• Where Do We Stand?
  Elder Mark E. Petersen

• The Coming Tests and Trials and Glory
  Elder Bruce R. McConkie

• Nauvoo—A Demonstration of Faith
  Elder L. Tom Perry

• Self-Accountability and Human Progress
  Elder Dean L. Larsen

• The Gospel Restored
  Elder Hugh W. Pinnock

• “Let Us Not Weary in Well Doing”
  President Spencer W. Kimball

• Welfare Session

• Church Welfare—Temporal Service in a Spiritual Setting
  President Marion G. Romney

• An Example of What Welfare Services Can Do
  President Harold G. Hillam

• Welfare Principles in Relief Society
  Sister Shirley W. Thomas

• Welfare Services: Past, Present, and Future
  Bishop Victor L. Brown

• Priesthood Councils: Key to Meeting Temporal and Spiritual Needs
  Elder Ronald E. Poelman

• A Deep Commitment to the Principles of Welfare Service
  President Spencer W. Kimball

• Commemorative Postal Card Ceremonies

• Remarks
  President Ezra Taft Benson

• Presentation of the Commemorative Postal Card
  Assistant Postmaster General Robert H. McCutcheon

• General Conference Music

• News of the Church

  Report of the Regional Representatives’ Seminar

On the cover—Bottom: Salt Lake City at night, looking southwest (photo by Eric W. White); top: Detail of front of Salt Lake Temple (photo by Eldon K. Linschoten).

Back cover—Right: The statue of the Angel Moroni atop the Salt Lake Temple, with the Church Office Building in the rear (photo by Jed Clark); left top: Spires of the Assembly Hall on Temple Square (photo by Eldon K. Linschoten); left bottom: Salt Lake Temple (photo by Marilyn Erd).

Inside front cover: Christ at Emmaus, A. B. Wright, 18″ by 22″, oil on canvas, 1912. Located in Church Historical Department.

Inside back cover: Translation of the Book of Mormon, Earl Jones, 36″ by 48″, oil on canvas, 1980. Located in the Peter Whitmer Farm Visitors’ Center.

Photography in this issue: Photography is by Public Communications Photo Services: Eldon K. Linschoten, chief photographer (New York-area photos); Jed A. Clark; Marilyn L. Erd; and Eric W. White.