New Era

December 1971

Volume 1, Number 12

Contents

• Departments

• Feedback

• The Message: The Greatest of Gifts
  Elder Mark E. Petersen

• Mormonisms

• FYI: For Your Information

• The Spoken Word Elder Richard L. Evans
  “… words as hard as cannon balls”

• A Puzzlement

• Q&A: Questions and Answers
  Lowell G. Tensmeyer
  William R. Siddoway
  William Rolfe Kerr
  Max W. Craner
  Frank M. Bradshaw

• Talk of the Month: Standards of Dress and Grooming
  Dallin H. Oaks

• Policies and Procedures

• A Christmas Greeting
  Phillips Brooks

• Feature Articles

• Combat Christmas
  Roger M. McLaughlin

• What Think Ye of Christ?

• Traditions That Brighten the Christian World

• ’Tis the Season to Be Jolly
  Elaine Cannon

• Create Christmas Gifts That Make Giving More Fun than Receiving

• Journey to Jerusalem
  Jeffrey Swinton

• Climbing Mexico’s Awesome Orizaba
  Holly Smith

• In Memory: Elder Richard L. Evans, Apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ
  Jay M. Todd

• Conference Report
  Elder Richard L. Evans
  Dr. James O. Mason

• Stick-Pulling: Newly Revived Game of the 1840s
  Don Oscarson

• Fiction

• The Heart of the Two-Mile Game
  Jerry Emerson Loomis

Cover photo by Don O. Thorpe