Ensign

October 1981

Volume 11 Number 10

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: “Pray Always”
  President Spencer W. Kimball

• The Church Publishes a New Triple Combination
  Bruce T. Harper

• Beyond the Fourth Generation
  Paul Simmons

• Lessons for Hermana: Report from a Sister Missionary
  Kathleen Swim

• On the Pacific Frontier: The Church in the Gilbert Islands
  R. Lanier Britsch

• “Let God Judge between Me and Thee”
  Elder Rex D. Pinegar

• “When It Happens to One among Us …”
  Maxine Murdock

• The Love of an Older Brother
  D. Brent Collette

• “This Is God’s House”
  Mary E. Dyer

• Happy Parents = Happy Children
  Ed and Ann Lauritsen

• Church Helps for Teaching the Gospel in the Home
  Sherrie Johnson

• Mother’s Identity Crisis
  Connie Pope

• Marta’s Triumph
  Paul W. Robinson

• Decide to Decide
  Carolyn DeVries

• Regular Features

• Poetry
  Hymn: All That the Earth Can Yield Orson Scott Card
  After Reading the Twenty-third Psalm Herta Rosenblatt
  Seven-year-old Elisabeth J. Hall

• I Have a Question
  Bruce L. Christensen
  John A. Tvedtnes

• Sharing

• Random Sampler

• Mormon Journal
  Prayer Got Us to Primary Betty Steinfeldt
  A Testimony of Prayer and Tithing Dennis Ure
  Tuition to Eastman David Dalton
  They Knew I Was Coming Keith Kerry

• Mirthright

• Speaking Today: The Business of Being
  Elder Derek A. Cuthbert

• News of the Church

On the cover: Landscape painting by John Fery, 18″ by 24″, oil on canvas, early twentieth century. Located in the Church Historical Department.

Inside front cover: Maycoc Home, Springville, by John Hafen, 22″ by 28″, oil on canvas, 1907. Located in the Church Historical Department.

Inside back cover: two works by H. L. A. Culmer. Black Rock, 66″ by 33″, oil on canvas. The Brook, 14″ by 8″, watercolor. Both early twentieth century, both located in the Church Historical Department.