Ensign

July 1975

Volume 5 Number 7

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: The Glory of Cleanliness
  President N. Eldon Tanner

• It’s Service, Not Status, That Counts
  Elder Neal A. Maxwell

• History Is Then—and Now: A Conversation with Leonard J. Arrington, Church Historian

• Coming to Zion: Saga of the Gathering
  William G. Hartley

• The Night before He Died
  David H. Yarn, Jr.

• He Has Been There before Me: When I Kneel at the Limits of My Personal Extremity
  Arthur R. Bassett

• Are Those My Feet upon the Mountains?
  Derek Dixon

• The Saints in Bear Lake Valley
  Lavina Fielding

• Dozens of Cousins: A Summer-long Reunion
  Elaine S. McKay

• At Home with the Boones
  Janice Clark

• Family Life Education
  Two Views of Sexuality Victor Brown, Jr.
  The Psychological Case for Chastity Steve Gilliland
  Being a Boy, Being a Girl Delbert T. and Claudia T. Goates

• The Spirit of Freedom
  Paul Cracroft

• Regular Features

• I Have a Question
  Avraham Gileadi
  Gerald N. Lund

• Discovery
  The Ancient Practice of Crucifixion Richard Lloyd Anderson

• Mirthright

• Random Sampler

• Insights

• Mormon Journal
  “Is This, by Chance, Your Party?” Jeannette N. Partridge
  Faith and Old Faithful Roger H. Aylworth
  Risking Death for the Prophet Philo Dibble

• Mormon Media

• Poetry
  With Open Eyes Vernice Wineera Pere

• Keeping Pace
  New Flexibility in Premilitary Orientation
  Smorgasbord of Opportunity with Relief Society Optional Lessons

• Speaking Today
  One for the Money Elder Marvin J. Ashton

• News of the Church

• Pioneers Crossing the Plains of Nebraska