Ensign

October 1979

Volume 9 Number 10

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: The Importance of Celestial Marriage
  President Spencer W. Kimball

• Church Publishes First LDS Edition of the Bible
  Lavina Fielding Anderson

• Rei Hamon
  Richard G. Oman

• Our Son Returned

• Getting to Madison Square Garden
  Elder Carlos E. Asay

• Family History on Film
  Libby Frech

• Pictures—Make Them Last
  John Telford

• Developing Sensitivity in Marriage
  David H. Coombs

• Ancient Writing on Metal Plates
  Paul R. Cheesman

• The Five Sons of Jared and Charity Pratt
  R. Steven Pratt

• Regular Features

• Poetry
  Celestial Vows Joel Passey
  I Sought Thee, Adonai Colin Douglas

• I Have a Question
  William E. Berrett,
  Richard Linford,
  Eric Stephan

• Mormon Journal
  Call from a Four-Year-Old Eileen Bailey
  One Shovelful of Coal Marjorie A. McCormick
  The People down the Street O. Morrell Clark
  A Gift from the Newlyweds Eugene A. Caputo

• Fiction: Her House in Order
  Elouise Bell

• Random Sampler

• Mirthright: Volkswagen on a Snowball
  John K. Harmer

• Speaking Today: Wife and Mother: A Valid Career Option for the College-Educated Woman
  Sydney Smith Reynolds

• Keeping Pace

• News of the Church