Ensign

January 1999

Volume 29 Number 1

Contents

• First Presidency Message: That We Might Know Thee

  President James E. Faust

• Living a Christ-Centered Life

  Elder Merrill J. Bateman

• Prophetic Enlightenment on the Sermon on the Mount

  W. Jeffrey Marsh

• Latter-day Clarity on Christ’s Life and Teachings

  Ray L. Huntington and Camille Fronk

• Little Children and the Gospel

  Elder Jay E. Jensen

• “Behold Your Little Ones”

• Honeymoon Marriage Counselor

  Brent A. Fisher

• Walking in Newness of Life

  Jennifer L. Thwaites

• “It Never Was a Sacrifice”

  Ronald W. Walker

• Too Busy to Help?

  Margie Reneer Gee

• With Love, from Grandma Bess

  Name Withheld

• Mormon Journal

  • “It’s Too Late, Mommy”

    Louise R. Hughes

  • The Pamphlet in the Rain

    Gamaliel Alcides Vásquez

  • Get Trudy to a Doctor

    Jill Porter

  • Our Unexpected Missionary Harvest

    Lauren Parker

  • Should I Sacrifice My Dream?

    Steven E. Gruenewald

• Portraits

• The Visiting Teacher: The Gift Only He Could Give

• Random Sampler

• News of the Church

On the cover: Front: The Light of the World, © 1998 Greg K. Olsen, oil on masonite, 20″ x 22″. Courtesy of the artist and Mill Pond Press, Inc. Back: Detail from Innocence, by Lynn Farrar, oil on masonite, 36″ x 48″, 1992.

Inside front cover: Light of the World, by Derek J. Hegsted, oil on canvas masonite, 30″ x 24″, 1997. Depicted here in a quiet moment with Mary, the Christ child focuses on the light of the lamp, an image evoking Abinadi’s words about the Lord Jesus Christ: “He is the light and the life of the world; yea, a light that is endless, that can never be darkened” (Mosiah 16:9).

Inside back cover: The Astonished Doctors, by Mathew C. Judd, oil on canvas, 32″ x 40″, 1998. Courtesy of Museum of Church History and Art. After searching for three days in Jerusalem following the Passover feast, Mary and Joseph found 12-year-old Jesus in the temple with the doctors, or teachers, who were amazed at His understanding and answers to their questions (see JST, Luke 2:46).