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Show BYU focuses on LDS Church in Britain Orem-Geneva Times Wednesday January 14, 1987 Brigham Young Unversity will sponsor a symposium January 16 and 17 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the British Isles. Programs for the free two-day symposium are available from the Department of Church History in 124 Joseph Smith Building at BYU. For information, call Donald Q. Cannon at 378-3978. The symposium theme is a revelation given to Joseph Smith during dur-ing one of fiie most troubled years in church history : "God revealed to me that something new must be done for the salvation of His Church." The year 1837 was a time of trouble with finances, apostasy and other internal stresses. Heber C. Kimball was called that year to head the Church's first foreign mission in Great Britain. In the years that followed, missionaries experienced ex-perienced great success, and many British church members emigrated to the United States. The symposium will include presentation of 42 papers on diverse topics, given by noted church historians and others with ties to or expertise on Great Britain. President Gordon B. Hinckley, First Counselor in the First Presidency Presiden-cy of the LDS Church, will open the symposium with a keynote address Friday (January 16) at 9 a.m. in the Marriott Center. President Hinckley served as a missionary in England during the 1930s. Elder Derek A. Cuthbert, a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy, will speak at a luncheon at noon Friday in 2258 Conference Center. Elder Cuthbert is the only native of Great Britain who is now a General Authority. Elder Marion D. Hanks, who served as a mission president in England, will speak at a banquet Friday Fri-day at 5:30 p.m. in the Wilkinson Center Ballroom. He is a member of the First Quorum of Seventy. Bishop Robert D. Hales, Presiding Presid-ing Bishop of the Church, will open Saturday's activities January 17 with an 8:30 a.m. address in the de Jong Concert Hall of the Harris Fine Arts Center. Bishop Hales also has ties to the British Isles, having served as a mission president there after being called as a General Authority. Symposium topics include the importance im-portance of church members who came to the United States, the history of church growth in England, and literary contributions of British saints. Presenters include scholars, historians, scientists, archivists, former mission presidents, and church members from the British Isles and Canada. - Leonard Arrington, a widely-known widely-known church historian, will speak on "British LDS Women in the 19th Century." Cen-tury." He is the former Church Historian and director of the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Church History at BYU. : . 1 I I ' K I tain t r-7 ;V. 'K ,ryv.fr.ils&-- Local artist Max Weaver demonstrates pottery making at Westmore School. Third graders getting a closer look at the process are Christina Miller, J ared Wilson and Richard Clark. Weaver told a brief history of pottery and the difference between low-fire and high-fire high-fire pottery and its strength. The school has its own kiln and students all participate in hand built pottery making. Lotteries, gambling immoral LDS Apostle tells students An Apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints told a Ricks College audience today that lotteries and other forms of gambling are imoral, that it is regrettable that goverments would tolerate gambling and "reprehensible" that the would promote it. Speaking at the Rexburg college's col-lege's first devotional assembly of the new year, Elder Dallin H. Oaks, a member of the Church's Council of Twelve Apostles, said gambling is both "morally wrong" and "politically "political-ly unwise." Elder Oaks quoted the current LDS First Presidency and several previous Church leaders in emphasizing emphasiz-ing the Church's unyielding opposition opposi-tion to gambling in any form. He also quoted journalists, representatives of other religions and of government agencies who warn of the evils of gambling. "Gambling is a game of chance that takes without giving value in return," he said, adding that news coverage of lotteries and other gambling gambl-ing "only tells of the winners." All are encouraged to ignore the reality that the winner has been enriched at the expense of a multitude of losers. "A state-sponsored lottery," he said, "is sugar-coated with the phony sweetness of a good cause" such as responding to financial crises, while both moral and financial costs are ignored. "Gambling tends to corrupt its participants," Elder Oaks said. "It's philosophy of something for nothing undermines the virtues of work, industry, in-dustry, thrift, and service to others." The one-time state supreme court justice and university president said gamblers commonly deprive themselves, them-selves, often impoverish their families, and sometimes steal from others to finance their indulgence. Seemingly innocent state-sponsored state-sponsored lotteries, he said, can ultimately lead to highly visible public gambling with it associating imoral influences of crime, prositu- tion and alcohol. Moving from moral objections to political objections, Elder Oaks said "Gambling is bad political policy ... a law that permits gambling is hard to justify and a law that sponsors or promotes gambling is a sure loser." He cited several reasons why gambling is politically unwise, including in-cluding the fact that "gambling undercuts productivity and encourages en-courages crime." The philosophy of something for nothing "or something for far less that it is worth is at the root of a multitude of crimes: theft, robbery, looting, embezzlement, fraud, and many other kinds of plunder," he said. Elder Oaks quoted the editor of Saturday Review who said of New York State's legalization of gambling, ' "The first thing that is obvious is that New York State itself has become a predator in a way that the Mafia could never hope to match. Gambling is also a costtly way to raise revenue for public purposes, he said, citing the fact that between 60 to 75 cents of every dollar spent on lottery lot-tery tickets goes to operating expenses ex-penses and prizes. Experience has shown, Elder Oaks said, that the effects of gambling gambl-ing impose increased government expenditures ex-penditures for social welfare and law enforcement. "The social effects of gambling have been noted throughout history," he said, citing the experience England had in the 19th century. People who have lived in comfort and respectability, he said were . "reduced to poverty and distress, domestic quarrels, assaults, and the ruin of family peace; fathers deser-. ting their families, mothers neglecting neglec-ting their children, wives robbing their husbands of the earnings of months and years, and people pawning pawn-ing clothing, beds, and wedding rings in order to indulge in speculation." The church official said adov-cates adov-cates of legalized gambling argue mat their games will eliminate ilegal gambling, "but there is no evidence that this has occurred. Instead, legalized gambling wins new participants, par-ticipants, which expands the market and the potential revenues of illegal gambling." He also said state lotteries provide pro-vide only a small percentage of government revenues, they primarily primari-ly benefit only businesses such as gambling suppliers and convenience stores and that those who oppose "legislating morality" use a superficial super-ficial argument. "As should be evident to every thinking person, a high proportion of all legislation has a moral base," he said. "That is true of all of the criminal law, most of the laws regulating families, businesses and commercial transactions, many of the laws governing property, and a host of others." He said some legislation is "unwise "un-wise or undesirable because it is an excessive interference with liberty or because it will be impossible or expensive ex-pensive to enforce. But the mere statement that we should not legislate morality contributes nothing to reasoned public discourse." Scout leaders should check insurance before transporting Scouts AXIS 18 Mil Nr We can help. Call to arrange a free evaluation. 224-4080 ext. 123 Arthritis Treatment Center Orem Community Hospital 331 North 400 West Orem, Utah 84057 KJJJ An Intermountain Health Care Facility Group Liability Insurance covered under the National Council of Boy Scouts of America provides excellent ex-cellent coverage for Scout leaders unless the leader involved is found "grossly negligent," according to Scouting guidelines. The following items would be considered con-sidered negligent. Scout leaders are reminded to avoid these situations. 1. Transporting too many passengers in one vehicle - go strictly strict-ly by registered capacity. 2. Transporting passengers in the back of a truck, covered or uncovered. un-covered. It simply does not offer enough protection. 3. Transporting passengers in a trailer or camper (pick-up type). 4. Offering an informal water events program without the required safety personnel to administer the program. 5. Driving more than 300 miles in one day without a relief driver. Consult Con-sult your tour permit for this. 6. Transporting passengers without seatbelts. Legislation on this subject could make you liable for warnings and fines if you have passengers without seatbelts. 7. Rock climbing or rappelling without qualified instructor and without training. 8. Convoying vehicles during a trip or outing. It's much less of a hazard to choose an end-of-trip, or lunchtime rendezvous point so you don't have to make passing cars difficult. 9. Utilizing drivers that are too young to meet eligibility requirements. re-quirements. Drivers for Cub trips must be 21 or over. Drivers for Scout, Varsity, or Exploring trips must be 18 or older. 10. Traveling without checking the insurance coverage on your unit's vehicles. ChecK your tour permit to be sure that your veNcles all meet the minimums. Don't make yourself liable by using uninsured or underin-sured underin-sured vehicles. 11. Traveling without a tour permit. per-mit. Local Tour Permit (500 miles or less) or National Tour Permit (500 miles or more and foreign travel forms areavailable through the Council Coun-cil Service Center. Mar jorie Newton, who is coming from Bass Hill, New South Wales, Australia, will speak on the "Gathering "Gather-ing of the Australian Saints in the 1850's." Marc A. Schindler and Scott D. Johnson will come from Canada and talk about the church in that country. Presenting yet another perspective perspec-tive of the church in Great Britain, Madison H. Thomas will report on a study of relationships between missionaries mis-sionaries and the British people. Thomas is a physician from Salt Lake City who served as a mission president presi-dent in England. Flea Market of ideas lectures Brigham Young University professors pro-fessors in science, English and history will discuss a wide range of accomplishments by several 1986 Nobel Prize winners in a Flea Market of Ideas lecture series Wednesday and Thursday (Jan. 14-15) at BYU. The lectures, which are open to the public, will take place twice daily dai-ly at 1 and 2 p.m. in 321 Wilkinson Center. Bill Hess, of the Botany and Range Science Department, and John H. Gardner, of Physics and Astronomy, will present "Seeing With Electrons-A Leap irfMan's Ability to Probe the Submicroscopic World" at 1 p.m. Wednesday (Jan. 14). , In his 2 p.m.' lecture, "From Beakers to Beams. - The New Wave Chemistry," chemistry professor Steven R. Goates will discuss the contributions con-tributions of. Nobel Prize winners Dudley Herschbach, John Polanyi, and Y.T. Lee. "James Buchanan: Clipping the Wings of Big Government and Bureaucratic Management of the Economy" is the topic of B. Delworth Gardner, professor of economics. In his 1 p.m. Thursday lecture, he will look at the effect of Buchanan's public choice theory on governmental regulations and institutions. At 2 p.m., zoology professor William Bradsnaw will present a "mechanistic picture of how specific embryonic cell types grow," an examination ex-amination of the work of Nobel winners win-ners Rita Levi-Montalcini and Stanley Cohen. ( Hit ' " . j BYU Theatre Ballet wfll present "Romeo and Juliet" in concert Jan. 22-24 at 7:30 p.m. in the de Jong Concert Hall of the Harris Fine Arts Center. BYU Theatre Ballet to present concert Single Parenting A 6-week single parenting groups is being offered by the BYU Comprehensive Com-prehensive Clinic to help full-time single parents overcome feelings of self-doubt, isolation, and financial stress. Call 378-7759 for information as soon as possible. Brigham Young University's Theatre Ballet will present its major 1987 production with performances of Prokofiev's "Romeo and Juliet" and the symphonic dance suite from "West Side Story." The Jan. 22, 23 and 24 concerts will be at 7 : 30 p.m. in the de Jong Concert Con-cert Hall of the Harris Fine Arts Center. "The combination of these famous tragic love stories offers a timeless parallel with universal appeal ap-peal despite their different cultural settings," says Lynne Thompson of the Dance Department. Co-artistic director Sandra Allen has brought Charles Bennett from California as guest choreographer for "Romeo and Juliet" and Mark Lanham from Ballet West as guest choreographer for "West Side Story." "Romeo and Juliet" is described by Bennett as a tale that "has always moved audiences and continuously inspired in-spired creative artists. This hour-long adaptation of opposed households and 'star-crossed' levers retains the original structure while using dance as the means of expressing the poetry." Bennett has performed most of the major roles in the repertoires of the American Ballet Theatre and the New York City Ballet. He also has extensive ex-tensive television experience in New York. He co-founded me original First Chamber Dance Quartet in 1964 and initiated a successful world tour. He later moved his company to Seattle and became resident company com-pany director of First Chamber Dance Company of Seattle. A SYMPOSIUM CELEBRATING THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CHURCH IN THE BRITISH ISLES HI p F-ill is en 1837-19 87 4 j ' i;'"f.f ' "J A J&l President Gordon B. Hinckley Friday 9:00 a.m. Marriott Center Bishop Robert D. Hales Saturday 8:30 a.m. de Jong Concert Hall 40 Additional Speakers BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE CENTER Public Invited Free Admission |