Ensign

September 1981

Volume 11 Number 9

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: We Believe in Being Chaste
  President Marion G. Romney

• What the Lord Requires of Fathers
  Elder Robert L. Backman

• “I’m Brother Hughes, Your Home Teacher”
  W. Martine Bates

• Different Directions, Different Methods
  Carolyn Manning Brink

• “Be of Good Cheer”: The Jimmy Lawrence Legacy
  Mary Kay Peirce

• Why Our Toddlers Enjoy Home Evening
  Marion D. Stewart

• Disaster on the Missouri
  Geri Berbert

• Three Houses
  Kenley Reese

• For Husbands and Wives
  Making a Marriage Work Elder Hugh W. Pinnock
  Breaking the Cycle: A Case Study of Conflict in Marriage C. Ross Clement
  Taking Action—with a Plan! S. Brent Scharman
  Getting to Know You Better: A Marriage Quiz Brent A. Barlow
  Thoughts on Marriage Compatibility

• Classical Basketball
  Tamera Smith Allred

• Confessions of a Non-Gourmet
  Anya C. Bateman

• Catherine’s Faith: Vignettes from the Life of Catherine Jane Cottam Romney
  Clifford J. Stratton and Marsha Romney Stratton

• “Why Must I Live So Long?”
  Judy Grigg Hansen

• Regular Features

• Poetry
  A Sacrament Hymn Orson Scott Card
  Sacramental Sonnet John S. Tanner
  Sacrament Thoughts Val Camenish Wilcox

• I Have a Question
  Robert J. Matthews
  Gayle Platt Spjut

• Speaking Today: “Let Your Light So Shine”
  Elder Dean L. Larsen

• Sharing

• Mirthright: Living with My Son’s Chest of Drawers
  Camilla M. Northrup

• Random Sampler

• Comment

• Mormon Journal
  A Letter Made the Difference Mary Johansen
  “For without Me Ye Can Do Nothing” Mark Hart
  Foster Children—Our Blessing Mary F. Goodman
  How I “Found Time” for Gospel Study Ardelle Holderness
  “I Saved Sharee!” R. Gene Allphin

• Fiction: Bus Stop
  Patty Redd Kennington

• News of the Church