Ensign

July 1977

Volume 7 Number 7

Contents

• First Presidency Message: The Gospel Vision of the Arts
  President Spencer W. Kimball

• Architecture

• First of the Modern Temples
  Paul L. Anderson

• Fiction

• Gert Fram
  Byron Walley

• Day of the Strangers
  Lael J. Littke

• Connie’s Tuesday
  Afton Day

• Souvenir
  Don Marshall

• Drama

• Rag Mission
  Brian Green

• Music

• Singing Hymns with New Power
  Clayne Robison

• As the Shadows Fall
  Lowell M. Durham, Jr., and Lowell M. Durham

• Our Heaven Is Our Home
  Marilyn McMeen Miller Brown and Dennis L. Crockett

• Our Savior’s Love
  Edward L. Hart and Crawford Gates

• I Have Two Ears
  Georgia Maeser and A. Laurence Lyon

• Painting

• A Portfolio of Mormon Painters

• Peter, James, and John Ordaining Joseph and Oliver
  Minerva K. Teichert

• Joseph Rebuking the Guards
  Danquart Weggeland

• Building the Nauvoo Temple
  Gary E. Smith

• Emigration of the Saints
  C. C. A. Christensen

• Haymaking
  Lorus Pratt

• Augusta Natural Bridge
  H. L. A. Culmer

• Fishing
  A. B. Wright

• Pioneer Relic
  J. T. Harwood

• Country Funeral
  LeConte Stewart

• George Albert Smith
  John Hafen

• The Green Bag
  Lee Greene Richards

• Navajo Woman and Goats
  Mahonri M. Young

• Country Fair
  B. F. Larsen

• Mother and Child
  Mary Teasdel

• Blessing
  Trevor Southey

• Edgemont Treehouse
  Dale T. Fletcher

• Poetry

• To a Dying Girl
  Clinton F. Larson

• Deliverance
  Marylou Cunningham Leavitt

• Looking West
  Orson Scott Card

• Late Waiting
  Emma Lou Thayne

• Too Late on Father’s Day
  Marden Clark

• Woodcraft
  Karen Mikkelsen

• Seven-year-old
  Elisabeth J. Hall

• Beyond Our Works and Days
  Arthur Henry King

• True Prayer
  Paul James Toscano

• On Peaches Days
  Marilyn McMeen Miller Brown

• Sandstone Chapel
  Don Jenkins

• Being Worth Our Salt
  Dianne Dibb Forbis

• The Clothesline
  Linda Madsen Sheffield

• Poetry From Our Past

• Rejoice, My Soul, Rejoice
  Reba Beebe Pratt

• I Want to Be Close to You
  Louisa L. Greene Richards

• To Mrs. V. Kimball
  Eliza R. Snow

• Peace Is in Your Tears
  Claire Stewart Boyer

• Parting
  Charles W. Penrose

• Waiting
  Orson F. Whitney

• General

• Family Art
  Orson Scott Card

• Baskets and Dancing Blankets
  Richard G. Oman

• “Virtuous, Lovely, or of Good Report”: How the Church Has Fostered the Arts
  Ronald W. Walker and D. Michael Quinn

• News of the Church