Ensign

September 1978

Volume 8 Number 9

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: Absolute Truth
  President Spencer W. Kimball

• 1830: Pivotal Year in the Fulness of Times
  Richard L. Bushman

• The Spirituality of Joseph Smith
  Dean C. Jessee

• Every Member WAS a Missionary
  William G. Hartley

• Challenge to Greatness: The Nineteenth-Century Saints in New York
  Lavina Fielding Anderson

• The Way It Looks Today: A Camera Tour of Church History Sites in New England, New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio

• Seventeen Centuries of Christianity
  De Lamar Jensen

• Why Study History?
  Elder G. Homer Durham

• Unique Teachings from the Doctrine and Covenants
  William E. Berrett

• Alvin Smith: Reminder of the Fairness of God
  Larry C. Porter

• Makers of Moons and Testimonies
  Caroline Eyring Miner

• “Daddy, I’m Talking to You”
  Dan L. Johnston

• Regular Features

• News of the Church