“Contents,” Ensign, June 1974, 1 Ensign June 1974 Volume 4 Number 6 “Our hardships reach their rough extremes, When valiant men are roped with teams, … Hour after hour, and day by day, To wear our strength and lives away. …” Contents Special Features First Presidency Message: “Thou Shalt Thank the Lord Thy God in All Things”President Marion G. Romney HandsRuthAnn Boyer Randall How to Share the Gospel: A Step-By-Step Approach for You and Your NeighborsPresident Ernest Eberhard Why Am I So Unhappy?Vern Green Reaching Every Facet of a Woman’s Life: A Conversation with Belle S. Spafford, Relief Society General President Fiction: Four and Twenty BlackbirdsEileen G. Kump Homemade SummersDianne Dibb Forbis Make Summer CountPresident Loren C. Dunn Over-Sixty SummerEdna Anne Hall Nine of Us and Mount RainierTerry Bernard No-Simmer Summer in the KitchenDaryl V. Hoole The Saints in Canada’s Maritime ProvincesEleanor Knowles Regular Features Mirthright Mormon JournalSpiritual Survival in Southeast Asia Steven L. OrtonRuth Was My Roommate Ruth W. HeinerTeenage Witness to the Martyrdom Golden R. Buchanan Insights DiscoveryJoseph Smith’s Influence on Mormon City PlanningThe Age of Accountability in AntiquityJonah Random Sampler Comment Mormon Media I Have a QuestionStewart L. GrowDarnell ZollingerWeldon ThackerNeil J. FlindersArch L. Madsen Bulletin Board News of the Church Poetry: Come, Christ’s Own SummerDorothy Hobson Fitzgerald March of the Mormon BattalionPainted by George M. Ottinger