Ensign

July 1976

Volume 6 Number 7

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: Pioneers Are Still Needed
  President N. Eldon Tanner

• How Fathers Spiritually Nourish Their Families
  Neil J. Flinders

• Presiding in Our Home Means …
  Joan Flinders

• The Seventies: A Historical Perspective
  Elder S. Dilworth Young

• The Saints in Knoxville Stake
  Diane M. Brinkman

• How I Stopped Accumulating and Started Filing in Four Easy Steps
  Daryl V. Hoole

• Spending Time Together
  Richard and Merilynne Linford

• Accepted of the Lord: The Doctrine of Making Your Calling and Election Sure
  Roy W. Doxey

• To Be Loved by Perfect Love: John’s Special Message of the Savior
  Sheryl Condie Kempton

• New Testament Backgrounds: The Epistles of John
  J. Lewis Taylor

• A Strange Thing in the Land: The Return of the Book of Enoch, Part 6
  Hugh Nibley

• Regular Features

• Poetry
  Reflections Vernice Wineera Pere
  To a Child Gone Carol Lynn Pearson
  Dawns Pauline Havard

• Fiction
  Tim’s Onions Patricia Murphy Wood

• Keeping Pace
  The 1976 June Regional Meetings: A Significant Milestone Lane Johnson
  Indian Placement: The Three Most Common Questions
  “A Choir in Every Ward”: New Guidebook Helps It Happen

• Random Sampler

• Mirthright

• I Have a Question
  Barbara B. Smith
  George Durrant
  Joyce Williams
  Albert Payne

• Mormon Journal
  Blessing on the Battlefield Larry Maloy
  I Wanted to Be Free Mary McDevitt Brunsdale
  A Thief in Camp Enone L. Hardman
  The Camp-In Gayle E. Walker
  570-Year-Old Address James D. McArthur

• Insights

• Speaking Today
  Some Thoughts on the Gospel and the Behavioral Sciences Elder Neal A. Maxwell

• Comment

• News of the Church

• Heber J. Grant