“Contents,” Ensign, Jan. 1990, 1 Ensign January 1990 Volume 20 Number 1 Contents Special Features First Presidency Message: Only a TeacherPresident Thomas S. Monson The ’80s—Looking Back; The ’90s—Looking AheadHoyt W. Brewster, Jr. Loving the Old Testament throughout My LifeLynette H. Kelley The Bible—Only 4,263 Languages to GoJoseph Stringham The Fall of Man and His RedemptionGerald N. Lund “A Man … Shall Cleave unto His Wife”: Marriage and Family Advice from the Old TestamentJames M. Harper Deborah and the Book of JudgesKristin E. Litchman Adam to Malachi—Where Do The Books Fit In?Edward J. Brandt Land of the Patriarchs Old Testament Canaan: Home of the ProphetsD. Kelly Ogden “No Other Gods before Me”David H. Madsen What Are We Learning in Church This Year?Tom G. Rose “The Best of Both Worlds”Giles H. Florence, Jr. The Thinness ObsessionHarold A. Frost Regular Features Poetry: The Psalm of My SoulGertrude Viehweg Todd The Visiting Teacher: Remember Him Mormon JournalNobody Saw Me Do It Marianne FlintThe Physician’s Faith Maurine Harris, as told to Sandra Dawn BrimhallThree Dollars till Payday Vera WeaverSeized by Panic Marva Jeanne Pedersen PortraitsJanice C. Loar: Weakness Is Her Strength Lona Shelley HardyRoy Webster: To Swim and Not Be Weary Bryant R. LarsenGay Cleverly: The Healing Art Lenore L. Schow Random SamplerDates with Grandpa and GrandmaGiving New Life to Old BeansHome Evening Helper News of the Church On the cover: Backdrop—Columns of the Temple of Karnak, Luxor, Egypt, and a camel caravan in Egypt. Front cover inset (top)—View of the treasury at the entrance to Petra, Jordan. All three photos by William Floyd Holdman. Front cover inset (bottom)—Pyramids of Giza. Back cover inset—Plain of Rahah and Mt. Sinai. Both photos by Richard Cleave. Used by permission. Inside front cover: And God Said, Let Us Make Man … by Stanley Galli, 20″ x 12″, gouache, 1969. Courtesy of the Museum of Church History and Art. Inside back cover: Abraham Leaving Haran, by Frank Adams, 27″ x 19″, watercolor and grease pencil, 1914. Courtesy of the Museum of Church History and Art.