THE ENSIGN OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS • JUNE 2001 FamilyFamily EntertainmentEntertainment Standards,Standards, p.p. 2626 TheThe ChurchChurch inin Romania,Romania, p.p. 3030 Beautiful Nauvoo, by Larry C. Winborg “The name of our city (Nauvoo) is of Hebrew origin, and signifies a beautiful situation, or place, carrying with it, also, the idea of rest; and is truly descriptive of the most delightful location” (“A Proclamation of the First Presidency of the Church to the Saints Scattered Abroad,” 15 Jan. 1841, History of the Church, 4:268). THE ENSIGN OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS • JUNE 2001 VOLUME 31 NUMBER 6 2 “BEHOLD YOUR LITTLE ONES” ON THE COVERS: Front: Photo by Steve Bunderson. Back: President Gordon B. Hinckley Photo by Craig Dimond. Inside front: Beautiful Nauvoo, by Larry C. Winborg, oil on canvas, 36” x 48”, 1998. 6MIRACLES Elder Dallin H. Oaks Courtesy of Brynn and Steve Burrows. 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HINCKLEY “When God wants a great work done in the world or a y wife and I once took some of great wrong righted, he goes about it in a very unusual our grandchildren to the circus. way. He doesn’t stir up his earthquakes or send forth I was more interested in watch- his thunderbolts. Instead, he has a helpless baby born, Ming them and many others of their age perhaps in a simple home of some obscure mother. And than in watching the man on the flying trapeze. I then God puts the idea into the mother’s heart, and she looked at them in wonder as they alternately laughed puts it into the baby’s mind. And then God waits. The and stared wide-eyed at the exciting things before greatest forces in the world are not the earthquakes and them. I thought of the miracle of children, for it is chil- the thunderbolts. The greatest forces in the world are dren who become the world’s constant renewal of life babies” (quoted in The Treasure Chest, ed. Charles L. and purpose. Observing them in the intensity of their Wallis [1965], 53). interest, even in that atmosphere, my mind reverted And those babies, I should like to add, will become to the beautiful and touching scene recorded in the forces for good or ill, depending in large measure on book of 3 Nephi when the resurrected Lord took little how they are reared. The Lord, without equivocation, children in His arms and wept as He blessed them and has declared, “I have commanded you to bring up said to the people, “Behold your little ones” (3 Ne. 17:23). your children in light and truth” (D&C 93:40). It is so obvious that the great good and the terrible If I may be pardoned for suggesting the obvious, evil in the world today are the sweet and the bitter I do so only because the obvious is not observed in fruits of the rearing of yesterday’s children. As we so many instances. The obvious includes four impera- train a new generation, so will the world be in a few tives with reference to children: love them, teach years. If you are worried about the future, then look them, respect them, pray with them and for them. to the upbringing of your children. Wisely did the writer of Proverbs declare, “Train up a child in the LOVE THEM way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it” (Prov. 22:6). How fortunate, how blessed is the child who feels When I was a boy, we lived in the summer on a fruit the affection of his parents. That warmth, that love farm. We grew great quantities of peaches—carloads of will bear sweet fruit in the years that follow. In large them. Our father took us to tree pruning demonstra- measure the harshness that characterizes so much of tions put on by the agricultural college. Each Saturday our society is an outgrowth of harshness imposed on during January and February we would go out to the children years ago. farm and prune the trees. We learned that by clipping Once, when I met one of my childhood friends, and sawing in the right places, even when snow was there came a train of memories of the neighborhood on the ground and the wood appeared dead, we could in which we grew up. It was a microcosm of the CRAIG DIMOND shape a tree so that the sun would touch the fruit which world, with many varieties of people. They were Y was to come with spring and summer. We learned that a close-knit group, and I think we knew them all. in February we could pretty well determine the kind I think, also, we loved them all—that is, except for of fruit we would pick in September. one man. I must make a confession: at a point in my PHOTOGRAPHY B 2 isely did the writer of ProverbsW declare, “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it” (Prov. 22:6). childhood I detested that man. I have since repented walls of your own home. Behold your little ones and of that emotion, but as I look back, I can sense again see within them the wonders of God, from whose the intensity of my feeling.