Ensign

December 1976

Volume 6 Number 12

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: Preparing for Old Age
  President N. Eldon Tanner

• The Expanding Church
  Lavina Fielding

• Selected Remarks: Excerpts from “The Expanding Church” Symposium

• The Saints in Orange County
  Kenneth R. Clements

• Benjamin, the Great King
  Eugene 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 Teichert
  Richard and Susan Oman

• The Plight of a Church Custodian
  Lora 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 8
  Hugh Nibley

• Regular Features

• Poetry and Other Verse
  Unto the Least of These Marilyn McMeen Miller Brown
  Be Still Arthur H. King
  Family Home Evening Kathleen R. Davis
  I Am the Courage and the Heat Lynda Mackey
  Of Giving Henry Kontz

• Mirthright

• Mormon Journal
  We Adopted a Grandpa for Christmas Pat Bair
  “Love, from Your Daughter Barbara” Mary Johansen
  A Sailor Began to Sing Sherry Downing
  “¡Feliz Navidad!” Tedra Merrill Balls
  Asparagus Fern Christmas Rosemary Petty

• Fiction: The Christmas Woodpile
  A. R. Hawkins

• Random Sampler

• I Have a Question
  Eugenia T. Herlin
  Michael Moody

• Insights

• Mormon Media: More Reading on Mormon History
  Davis Bitton

• Speaking Today
  A 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.)