Ensign

December 1989

Volume 19 Number 12

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: The Sacred Law of Tithing
  President Gordon B. Hinckley

• Enemies of Righteousness
  Dennis L. Largey

• Why This Holy Land?
  Elder Russell M. Nelson

• An Invitation from the Lord
  Marie Searle

• The Hogan on the Hill
  Edith L. Lamb

• The Red Uglies
  Kristine Stones Keele

• “How Many Loaves Have Ye?”
  Jack M. Lyon

• An Old Friend
  Richard W. Kartak

• The Fulness of Times
  Robert J. Matthews

• Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
  Giles H. Florence, Jr.

• Regular Features

• Sharing
  In Defense of Homemade
  Gospel Light

• Mormon Journal
  The Voice on the Phone D. M. Brown
  The Christmas We Gave Away Name Withheld
  Reluctant Scouts Sims W. Lowry
  Mother’s Homemade Christmas Ruth M. Ostegar

• The Visiting Teacher: Preparing for The Temple

• I Have a Question: Personages in the Godhead
  Keith L. Sellers and Victor G. Forsnes

• Portraits
  Berget Herb: The Renaissance Woman of Freiberg June Feulner Krambule
  Artur de Carvalho: He Knew the Sound of Truth Don L. Searle
  David R. Irwin: Signs of Love Anne C. Bradshaw

• Handbook for Families: How to Help Our Children Gain a Testimony

• Random Sampler
  Instant Christmas
  Kid Mail
  Using That Evaporated Milk
  Reconstructive “Sergery”

• News of the Church

• Annual Index

On the cover: Christmas Service, by Paul Mann.

Inside front cover: The Arrival of the Shepherds, by Henri LeRolle. Courtesy of the Musée des Beaux Arts, Caracassonne, France.

Inside back cover: Flight into Egypt, by Robert T. Barrett, 35″ x 23″, oil, 1985.