New Era

December 1973

Volume 3, Number 12

Contents

• Departments

• Feedback

• The Message: The Truth about Christmas
  President Rex D. Pinegar

• Mormonisms

• Stories from the General Authorities: “In Eden’s Garden While I Dreamed”
  Vaughn J. Featherstone

• Mormonad

• Feature Articles

• The Greatness of Joseph Smith and His Remarkable Visions
  Jerry C. Roundy

• Unexpected Star
  Margreta Spencer

• Brother Joseph
  Carl Arrington

• The Martyrdom As Seen by a Young Mormon Artist
  Brian Kelly

• “Of Goodly Parents”: Joseph Smith, Sr., and Lucy Mack Smith
  Richard Lloyd Anderson

• The Mummies of Nauvoo
  W. Ralph Odom

• From a Nauvoo Pantry
  Mary K. Stout

• “Joseph, Joseph, Joseph”

• Poetry

• A Fugue on Suffering and Perfection
  Michael Palmer

Cover photo by Don Thorpe