Ensign

December 1981

Volume 11 Number 12

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: The Power of Example
  President N. Eldon Tanner

• Open Your Mouths: The Courage to Share the Gospel
  Joe J. Christensen

• A Tiny Fragment of Steel
  Brent A. Barlow

• Kings to Malachi
  Restoring “Plain and Precious Parts”: The Role of Latter-day Scriptures in Helping Us Understand the Bible Monte S. Nyman
  The Scatterings and Gatherings of Israel Edward J. Brandt
  Life in Ancient Biblical Lands John M. Lundquist
  The Lachish Letters: Documents from Lehi’s Day Hugh W. Nibley

• Lessons at a Glance: What Our Children Are Learning
  Grant E. Barton

• Report from Cyprus
  Joan Farbus

• Christmas Card
  Dawn Walker Naylor

• Regular Features

• Mormon Journal
  The Christmas Our Parents Wept Lillie Buhler Day
  $7,000 by Christmas Anne Castleton Busath
  Our Own Gifts Went Unnoticed Ila Marie Goodey

• I Have a Question
  Brent Bulloch
  Leland H. Gentry
  Ellis T. Rasmussen

• Random Sampler

• The Best Thing We’ve Done

• Comment

• News of the Church

On the cover: Adoration of the Shepherds, by Bartolome Esteban Murillo.

Inside front cover: Simeon and Baby Jesus, by Woodward. Copyright Providence Lithograph Company, 1964.

Inside back cover: Jerusalem, the Holy City, by S. Monroe Hart, 18″ by 36″, oil on canvas, 1981.