Ensign

January 1990

Volume 20 Number 1

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: Only a Teacher
  President Thomas S. Monson

• The ’80s—Looking Back; The ’90s—Looking Ahead
  Hoyt W. Brewster, Jr.

• Loving the Old Testament throughout My Life
  Lynette H. Kelley

• The Bible—Only 4,263 Languages to Go
  Joseph Stringham

• The Fall of Man and His Redemption
  Gerald N. Lund

• “A Man … Shall Cleave unto His Wife”: Marriage and Family Advice from the Old Testament
  James M. Harper

• Deborah and the Book of Judges
  Kristin E. Litchman

• Adam to Malachi—Where Do The Books Fit In?
  Edward J. Brandt

• Land of the Patriarchs

• Old Testament Canaan: Home of the Prophets
  D. Kelly Ogden

• “No Other Gods before Me”
  David H. Madsen

• What Are We Learning in Church This Year?
  Tom G. Rose

• “The Best of Both Worlds”
  Giles H. Florence, Jr.

• The Thinness Obsession
  Harold A. Frost

• Regular Features

• Poetry: The Psalm of My Soul
  Gertrude Viehweg Todd

• The Visiting Teacher: Remember Him

• Mormon Journal
  Nobody Saw Me Do It Marianne Flint
  The Physician’s Faith Maurine Harris, as told to Sandra Dawn Brimhall
  Three Dollars till Payday Vera Weaver
  Seized by Panic Marva Jeanne Pedersen

• Portraits
  Janice C. Loar: Weakness Is Her Strength Lona Shelley Hardy
  Roy Webster: To Swim and Not Be Weary Bryant R. Larsen
  Gay Cleverly: The Healing Art Lenore L. Schow

• Random Sampler
  Dates with Grandpa and Grandma
  Giving New Life to Old Beans
  Home Evening Helper

• News of the Church