Ensign

April 1977

Volume 7 Number 4

Contents

• Special Features

• The Salvation of Little Children
  Elder Bruce R. McConkie

• Getting a Head Start on the Day
  Geri Brinley

• The Character of Joseph Smith: Insights from His Holographs
  Richard L. Bushman

• Drama in Vietnam
  Michele Jugant Green, as told to John A. Green

• Neighborliness: Daines Style
  Orson Scott Card

• Encounter in Ammonihah
  Francine Bennion

• The Impact of Someone Else’s Tobacco Smoke
  George H. Russ

• Drug Abuse: It Starts in the Medicine Cabinet
  Ira W. Hillyard

• With Your Whole Sole: Discover Walking
  D. James Cannon

• The Do’s in the Word of Wisdom
  Lora Beth Larson

• Infants and the Word of Wisdom
  Paul S. Bergeson

• Tobacco and Alcohol
  Roger R. Williams

• Stake Relief Society President? Me?
  Laurie J. Wilson

• A Strange Thing in the Land: The Return of the Book of Enoch, Part 11
  Hugh Nibley

• Regular Features

• Poetry
  My Childhood Calls Me Mary L. Bradford
  Edward Taylor (c. 1642–1729) Rosemary Roberts Petty
  Waiting Sandra Petree

• I Have a Question
  Henry B. Eyring
  Lenet Hadley Read
  Leonard J. Arrington
  Mollie H. Sorensen

• Mirthright

• Mormon Journal
  Temptation in a Punch Bowl Yvonne Rempp
  I Had to Quit Smoking! Kae Black
  President Grant Was Talking to Me Mark Hart
  The Answer in a Paint Brush John C. Lea
  End of the Search Eitaro Kato
  Messenger to the Sightless Jesse Anderson

• Random Sampler

• Insights

• Fiction: The Hearts of the Children
  Kristen Rogers and Melinda Smart

• News of the Church

On the cover: Items symbolizing the Word of Wisdom. Art by Richard Hull

Inside front cover: Mosiah Interprets Jaredite Stone by Minerva K. Teichert, oil on fiberboard, BYU Art Collection. The painting depicts the contact of cultures described in Omni 1:20–22.

Oakland Temple. Photography by Longin Lonczyna.