Ensign

December 1973

Volume 3 Number 12

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: Christ’s Atonement: The Gift Supreme
  President Marion G. Romney

• Consider Christmas
  Elaine Cannon

• Try Family Theater: “A Child Is Born”
  Mabel Jones Gabbott

• Christmas Carols

• The Unforgettable Gifts

• The Gift That Never Wore Out
  Carol Lynn Pearson

• “Then We Found the Rocking Horse …”
  Derek Dixon

• Angels Don’t Have Wings
  Terry Dawn Oyler

• Christmas Poetry:
  Gifts of the Savior Dorothy Hobson Fitzgerald
  To the Savior at Christmas and Always Arthur Henry King
  The Boy and the King Virginia Maughan Kammeyer
  The Savior in Gethsemane Clinton F. Larson
  And He Became Emma Lou Thayne
  Of the Living God Mildred Barthel
  My Lord of the Garden Clifton Holt Jolley

• Family Project: Cut, Paste, Crunch, Munch

• What Joseph Smith Teaches Us of Christ
  Elder S. Dilworth Young

• Look at Your Walls. What Do You See?
  Ed Maryon

• The Priesthood Ordinance of Sacrifice
  Edward J. Brandt

• Help Available Here: A Conversation with Elder Robert L. Simpson about LDS Social Services

• Regular Features

• I Have a Question

• Searching the Scriptures: Giving and Receiving
  Robert J. Matthews

• Discovery

• Books

• Comment

• News of the Church

• Bulletin Board

• Index of the 1973 Ensign

• After All

On the cover: Gethsemane, by Harry Anderson. See page 45.