Ensign

January 1991

Volume 21 Number 1

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: “Strengthen Thy Stakes”
  President Ezra Taft Benson

• The Eternal Ministry of Christ
  Kent P. Jackson

• Mary, His Mother
  Susan Easton Black

• “There Is Not a Greater Prophet”: The Ministry of John the Baptist
  Robert J. Matthews

• The Beatitudes—Pathway to the Savior
  S. Michael Wilcox

• Learning to Love the New Testament
  Joan B. Goble

• Our Family’s Tape-Recorded New Testament
  Carole Garfield Seegmiller

• “When All Have Spoken”
  Brent A. Barlow

• The Life of Christ: Painted by Carl Heinrich Bloch (1834–90)

• Of the House of Israel
  Daniel H. Ludlow

• Return to the Honeymoon Place
  David K. Whitmer

• Why Aren’t I Happy?
  Jeffrey C. Jacob

• Regular Features

• Mormon Journal
  The Empty Chair LouDeene S. Barlocker
  Prayer and Popcorn Mary Ralls
  A Light in the Blizzard Glenn Thomas
  “Thy Will Be Done” Maxine Crossley

• Research and Perspectives
  More Valuable Than Gold
  Secrets Woven in the Past LaRene Gaunt

• Portraits
  Dick Rozier: Ultra-fit at Sixty
  Terri Harb: Her Cycle of Care Lila Hansen
  Harold J. Hughes: The Law of the Letter

• Random Sampler
  Getting into the (Wheat) Grind
  “Dear Angela” (Corresponding with My Journal) Susan C. Eliason

• The Visiting Teacher: The Mission of Relief Society
  The Relief Society General Presidency

• News of the Church