“Contents,” Ensign, May 1971, 1

Ensign

May 1971

Volume 1 Number 5

Contents

Regular Features
First Presidency Message: The Most Important Knowledge
President Joseph Fielding Smith
The Spoken Word
Elder Richard L. Evans
Guatemala
Wendell J. Ashton
Our Readers Write
Religion in the World
Programs and Policies Newsletter
Today’s Family
Conducted by Mabel Jones Gabbott
After All
Editorial: The Meaning of Education
Faith/Doctrine/History
Keeping the Sabbath Day Holy
Elder Ezra Taft Benson
Classics in Mormon Thought: The King Follett Sermon
Joseph Smith, Jr. (1805–1844)
Cast Your Bread
Richard H. Cracroft
Youth Away From Home
Elwood R. Peterson
Human Relations/Teaching
In Quest of the One
Robert L. Egbert
Turning the Heart of a Father
Owen C. Bennion
Of Books, Children, and Parents
Elliott D. Landau
Education and the Church
M. Dallas Burnett
Brigham Young University
Ernest L. Wilkinson
Ricks College
John L. Clarke
Church College of Hawaii
Owen J. Cook
Post-High-School Alternatives
Steve Hale
Keeping Up with the Joneses: A Real Danger
Quinn G. McKay and William A. Tilleman
Contemporary Issues
Realities of the Population Explosion
Philip F. Low
Eastern Orthodoxy
Milton V. Backman, Jr.
A Visit with a Patriarch
Leon R. Hartshorn
Patchwork
Edythe K. Watson
Food ’n Fun in Iowa
Mildred Barthel
Fiction/Poetry
Fiction: The First Sunday
Douglas H. Thayer
Poetry
John D. Engle, Jr.
Paul Armstrong
Emma Lou W. Thayne
Maureen Cannon
Donna Dickey Guyer

Cover Note: The direction and philosophy of education in the Church are featured in the Ensign this month, starting on page 34. Cover photographs showing samples of the activity were taken by Harold Johnson, Bruce Christensen, Jerry Harvey, and Eldon Linschoten.