Ensign

June 1980

Volume 10 Number 6

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: Concerning Tithing
  President Marion G. Romney

• The Cheering Section
  Elder Paul H. Dunn

• From Bhutan to Wangts’ang: Taking the Gospel to Asia
  R. Lanier Britsch

• Questions about Coping Financially: Welfare Services Suggests Some Answers

• Chastity: A Principle of Power
  Steve Gilliland

• The Ark of the Covenant: Symbol of Triumph
  L. H. Read

• Pioneer Lullaby
  Virginia Maughan Kammeyer and David A. Zabriskie

• Istanbul and Rexburg: Jacob Spori’s Mission Field
  Denton Y. Brewerton

• Missionary to the Balkans: Mischa Markow
  William Hale Kehr

• It All Started with Kindergarten
  Petrea Kelly

• Family Preparedness: It’s More than a Year’s Supply
  JoAnn L. Hibbert

• Sister Ferrin: Seminary Teacher in Action
  Sharon Elwell

• Bundles of Joy and Wet Diapers
  Deanne T. Francis

• Leonora, Eliza, and Lorenzo: An Affectionate Portrait of the Snow Family
  Maureen Ursenbach Beecher

• Regular Features

• Discovery
  Loneliness: A Medical Problem?
  Fathers—Present and Absent

• Mirthright

• I Have a Question
  Roy W. Doxey
  Richard Lloyd Anderson

• Sharing

• Random Sampler

• Speaking Today: “This Generation Shall Have My Word through You”
  Elder Bruce R. McConkie

• Fiction: Stake Conference Sunday

  Margaret Woods

• Keeping Pace

• The Best Thing We’ve Done

• Comment

• News of the Church

On the cover: “The Asian Continent,” as represented in Shing-style Chinese calligraphy by Albert Tsu-Nien Yuan.

Inside front cover: Emigrants Crossing the Plains, artist unknown, 5 1/2″ by 8 1/4″, lithograph, 1869. Located in Church Historical Department.

Inside back cover: Brigham Young Calling Volunteers for the Mormon Battalion, C. C. A. Christensen, 13″ by 22″, oil on canvas, undated. Located in Church Historical Department.