Ensign

July 1990

Volume 20 Number 7

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: A City upon a Hill
  President Gordon B. Hinckley

• Religion in Public Life
  Elder Dallin H. Oaks

• Keeping Track of the Lord’s Sheep
  Floyd A. Hill

• Names, Not Numbers
  Christopher C. H. Wills

• The Atonement of Jesus Christ, Part 1
  Hugh W. Nibley

• Doing Temple Work at Home
  Richard Tice

• A Covenant Restored
  LaRene Gaunt

• Elijah: Champion of Israel’s God
  John A. Tvedtnes

• Writing and Music Contests
  1990 Writing and Music Contest Winners
  Rules for the 1991 Contests

• Our Tree of Life (1990 Life-Style Article Contest Winner)
  Elaine Shaw Sorensen

• 1990 Eliza R. Snow Poetry Contest Winners
  St. Matthew on a Midsummer Night Dawn Baker Brimley
  When the Elect, Not Hearing Lynette K. Allen
  First Frost Wilma M. Rich

• Kubendra and Raj
  Shirleen Meek

• Regular Features

• Handbook for Families: Improving Family Talk

• Mormon Journal
  What Fire Alarm? Carol Spendlove
  My Weapon against Smoking Chris Larsen
  “Golden Rule” Prayer Dixie M. Lyman
  “Your Son Has a Brain Tumor” Louis Principe

• The Visiting Teacher: Remember Him through Prayer

• Portraits
  Mark M. Jennings: First Captain and Brothers’ Keeper
  Hoterene Mau: Back to the Fold and Now a Shepherd Tina Dil
  Robert Dowling: Expressing Love With Chocolate Anne C. Bradshaw
  Connie Rae Matheson: Four Million Salmon Call Her Mama

• Random Sampler
  Our Family Is Coordinated
  Baby Home Evening

• News of the Church

On the cover: Items and artifacts from the Museum of Church History and Art’s new permanent exhibit, “A Covenant Restored.” Photography by Craig Dimond (front) and Ron Read (back).

Inside front cover: First Avenue View of the Temple, by Al Rounds, 30 1/2″ by 22″, watercolor, 1989. Courtesy of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Taylor.

Inside back cover: Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream, by Robert T. Barrett, 14″ x 17″, oil, 1986.