Ensign

April 1978

Volume 8 Number 4

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: “Train Up a Child”
  President Spencer W. Kimball

• The Church and Children
  Lavina Fielding Anderson

• Three Plagues of Parenting
  Kathy England

• Parenting’s Big Problems

• “Foundation for the Future”: A Conversation with Naomi M. Shumway, General President of the Primary

• Everbody’s Friend
  Orson Scott Card

• 100 Years of Primary
  Susan Oman and Carol Madsen

• The Peace of Christ
  George S. Tate

• After the Temple
  Carole Osborne Cole

• Trying What Hasn’t Been Tried Before
  Stephen L. Tanner

• Mormon: The Man and the Book, Part 2
  Jeffrey R. Holland

• Breaking the Letter Barrier
  Mark A Wood

• Five Dollars for Joseph Smith
  Spencer J. Palmer

• I Learned to Take Time—the Hard Way
  Edwin G. Sapp

• Regular Features

• Poetry
  Psalm Esther Clark Smith
  Encore Shirley Howard
  The Call Lucille N. Anderson
  And in Wisdom Anne Marie Crossen

• Mormon Journal
  Everybody Needs a Winnie R. Bruce Lindsay
  The Fuja Magic with Children Debra S. Hadfield
  A Spirit of Order Alyce Funk
  All Over the World

• I Have a Question
  Phillip R. Kunz
  Andrew M. Allison
  Berniece Rabe

• Mirthright

• Random Sampler

• Fiction: The Rescue
  Janice Leavitt Voorhies

• Speaking Today: Administration of the Restored Church
  President N. Eldon Tanner

• News of the Church