“Contents,” Ensign, Oct. 1995, 1 Ensign October 1995 Volume 25 Number 10 Contents First Presidency Message: Faith: The Essence of True ReligionPresident Gordon B. Hinckley Same-Gender AttractionElder Dallin H. Oaks More Than a Job Well DoneLena M. Brunson In Praise of GodD. Lynn Ford “Go Ye Therefore, and Teach All Nations”Elder Kwok Yuen Tai Tears of Sorrow, Tears of JoyBettyanne Gillette Finding My Happiness at HomeEileen M. Allred Best Friends with the BishopCharlene Murray Farnworth Heeding the Prophet’s CallS. George Ellsworth Historical PerspectiveGlen M. Leonard Hole-in-the-RockLaRene Porter Gaunt Two Boys in the BackyardPaula J. Lewis A Crisis, a Council, and Inspired LeadershipRobert J. Matthews I Have a Question: Overcoming lonelinessJulie Larsen Mormon JournalThe Answer That Fit Ron Holm“Go Save Your Father” H. Y. HoI Prayed and Drove On Gustavo AbalosA Promise Fulfilled Astrid Karlsen ScottCapsized in a Storm Warren Gerald Tate, as told to Suzanne Jeppson Tate Portraits The Visiting Teacher: “More Hope in His Word” Random Sampler News of the Church On the cover: Front: Impressions of Hole-in-the-Rock, by Minerva Kohlhepp Teichert. Back: Pioneer Mother and Daughter, by Everett E. Thorpe, oil on canvas, 24″ x 28″. Courtesy of Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museum. Inside front cover: The Earth Is the Lord’s, by Mary Kimball Johnson, oil on canvas, 8′ x 14′, 1956. “The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein” (Ps. 24:1). Now hanging in the Bountiful Utah Temple, this mural of a family giving thanks for an abundant harvest was painted in 1956. Inside back cover: Gathering of New Testament Saints, by Robert T. Barrett, oil on canvas, 12″ x 17″, 1984. After Jesus Christ ascended into heaven, the New Testament Saints “continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers … with gladness and singleness of heart, praising God, and having favour with all the people” (Acts 2:42, 46–47).