New Era

December 1978

Volume 8, Number 12

Contents

• Departments

• Feedback

• The Message: “I Feel Sorry for Him”
  Elder John H. Groberg

• In Tune: In Bethlehem
  Toni Tietjen

• Mormonisms

• FYI: For Your Information

• Participatory Journalism: The Case of the Missing Car
  Jean Taylor

• Mormonad

• Feature Articles

• “If You Want to Be in Harmony, You’ve Got to Stay in Tune”
  Babzanne Park

• Four Peruvian Versions of the White God Legend
  Kirk Magleby

• You Sing—You Love
  H. Kent Rappleye

• A Merry Missionary Christmas
  Melvin Leavitt

• The Hands of the Seer: The Cardston Seminary Pageant
  Laird Roberts

• Learn Wisdom in Thy Youth
  President Marion G. Romney

• Poetry and Fiction

• Night Thoughts
  Michael Collings

• The Little Red Lunch Bucket
  Dorothy Levie Nielsen

Cover scene: Originally created by Clark Leaming Co., Salt Lake City, and restaged in the old Smith barn in Farmington, Utah. Figures were conceived by Robert Brain and designed by Jutta Gellerson.