“Contents,” Ensign, Dec. 1976, 1 Ensign December 1976 Volume 6 Number 12 Contents Special Features First Presidency Message: Preparing for Old AgePresident N. Eldon Tanner The Expanding ChurchLavina Fielding Selected Remarks: Excerpts from “The Expanding Church” Symposium The Saints in Orange CountyKenneth R. Clements Benjamin, the Great KingEugene England “For unto Us a Child Is Born”Ann K. Anderson What Shall We Do with Santa Claus?: A Roundtable A Passion for Painting: Minerva Kohlhepp TeichertRichard and Susan Oman The Plight of a Church CustodianLora J. Asay Our Father’s House: What You Can Do to Help the Church Custodian A Strange Thing in the Land: The Return of the Book of Enoch, Part 8Hugh Nibley Regular Features Poetry and Other VerseUnto the Least of These Marilyn McMeen Miller BrownBe Still Arthur H. KingFamily Home Evening Kathleen R. DavisI Am the Courage and the Heat Lynda MackeyOf Giving Henry Kontz Mirthright Mormon JournalWe Adopted a Grandpa for Christmas Pat Bair“Love, from Your Daughter Barbara” Mary JohansenA Sailor Began to Sing Sherry Downing“¡Feliz Navidad!” Tedra Merrill BallsAsparagus Fern Christmas Rosemary Petty Fiction: The Christmas WoodpileA. R. Hawkins Random Sampler I Have a QuestionEugenia T. HerlinMichael Moody Insights Mormon Media: More Reading on Mormon HistoryDavis Bitton Speaking TodayA Message to Judah from Joseph President Ezra Taft Benson News of the Church Church Policies and Announcements On the cover: Paintings by Minerva Teichert (see page 52) Front: Three Wise Men (1944, 45″ x 58″, oil on canvas, from the permanent collection of Brigham Young University). Back: Shepherds Seeing the Star (1940s, 69″ x 50″, oil on canvas, Garden Park Chapel, Salt Lake Bonneville Stake). Inside front cover: Illustration by Kent Goodliffe Inside back cover: Spencer W. Kimball. (Photograph by Eldon Linschoten.)