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Show w SERVICES THREE-DA- Y ' N ? President McKay To Dedicate Oakland Temple 1 1 , 4 i ( By HENRY Church News Editor President David 0. McKay will dedicate die Oakland Tem-'pl- fr at services next Tuesday morning. . The Church leader will head a large party of General Authorities and other Church officers who will fly Monday to Oakland to attend the three-da- y dedicatory services. - President McKay has recovered sufficiently from a recent heart ailment to be permitted by his doctors to make the trip to Oakland and participate in die services which will be held under his direction. Assisting President McKay will be his counselors President;; Hugh B. Brown and President N. Eldon Tanner. Hie dedicatory services will extend from Tuesday through Thursday. Sessions will be held on the first two days at 9:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. . On Thursday only die two services will begin at 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. This change in time will permit President Mo-Kay and others who so desire 'to return to Salt Lake City Thursday evening. s are by persons who at tend the services. In addition tickets - areiissuedr which will permit entrance in the temple or in the adjoining East Bay In " terstake Center. to O. Pres. Leslie According Stone, chairman ofx the Oakland Temple District, those who may be in the area without tickets will be admitted to the services in the Interstake-Cente- r on presentation of their temple recommends. It is exjiected that there will be space available for such persons, President Stone said. All seats within the temple are previously assigned by ticket. It is expected that 1,200 people will be seated in the various rooms of the temple and approximately 5,000 will be seated for each session in the Inter. stake Center. Closed circuit television will T Templeall recommends needed Pres, Hogh First ' stake Center.- - - President Stone alsoex- plained that those persons coming from distances to attend the services will be permitted to tour the temple each evening of the dedication beginning at 5 p.m. They will need their temple recom- mends also for this purpose. 1 The dedicatory prayer will be repeated in each pf the dedicatory services. All General Authorities who are not assigned- outside the United States will be in attendance. They will be accompanied by their wives. Among the -- -- t i 4 Tours Pres. N. Eldon Tanner other Church officers attending be the general auxiliary ex-ecutives. President Stone and Temple President Delbert F, Wright report that all is in readiness for the dedication and for the visit of the Church officials. The temple has been cleaned and last minute construction completed following the tour of the building by 350,000 people who responded to the public viewing during October. The Oakland Temple will be the fifth temple dedicated by - President "McKay since he came president of the Church in 1951. The others are the Swiss, London, New Zealand and Los 1 Angeles Temples, The beloved Church leader has been closely identified with the construction of the Oakland Temple since he first visited the site in 193f.'He visited San Franciscan Janti- ary 1961 to announce that the temple would.be built and the next yearMqy, 1962, he dedi- cated the site and broke ground for the start of construction. be-wi- ll -- Parents To TeachdGospel to be taken in November and December to inaugurate the program, first on the stake level and then on the ward level. The first two weeks in NoyOfn-be- r have been devoted ,to' a discussion of the program by the presidency and .file high council of each staker'The schedule during the,fiiird week calls for the stake 'presidency and high coun- to meet with the bishoprics and branch presidencies. The final week in November is to feature a review of the new program by the stake presidency with the entire stake priest- hood leadership. An outline for this special leadership meeting Is provided in the book. The four weekly steps planned for December and emphasizing introduction of the program on a ward level are: Brown i- services into -- each carrY room of the tmple and the Inter- - : FIRST STEPS TAKEN -- First steps toward inaugura- tion of a new program designed to assist parents in teaching the Gospel in the home are being taken this week in the stakes and missions throughout the Church. The program, first announced at the recent general conference in Salt Lake City, is to be started in January, 1965. Although the program Is outlined on a stake basis, mission, presidents are asked by . the First Presidency to adapt this program to their mission organisations. The initial step taken this past week wafiie distribution to all stake, and mission presidents of a,b6oklet of instructions on the 'implementation of the family home evening program." The program outlined weekly steps B. Presidency will direct dedication of Oakland Temple next week. SPECIALiSECTION ON ORDER Additional copies of the special Oakland Tgmple Dedication Section which will be distributed Nov. 21 may be ordered pow for only 25 cents each. This special section will contain photographs showing inside and outside views of this new California landmark, many in full color. Along with the photographs will be stories telling of the temples stages of development as well as (he purpose of Latter-da- y Saints temples. An added feature of the section will be color photographs of the Churchs temples throughout the world. To order additional copies to the one you will receive free Jiext Saturday, send 25 cents for each to Temple Section, Deseret News, P.O. Box IS7, Salt Lake City, Utah 84110. First,week The bishop meets witjK'fiie priesthood executive ..ebmmittee and the ward council to explain the family home evening program. deal with the importance of suggest other techniques and acSecond week The priesthood of the Gospel in the tivities to the home teacher for teaching leaders in the wards meet home and the talk of Elder Lee serving his families. He should of their quorums for s the general puruse every feasible means for asthe same purpose. his families to develop in and objectives of the new poses sisting Third week The bishop meets program being inaugurated in solidarity and in Church' activiwith all parents and heads of 1965. ty, and individual family memfamilies to conduct a training bers to grow in their conviction Included also in the .booklet of session on the program. (This of the divinity of the restored instructions are monthly suggesv meeting is to be held not later to home teachers for each gospel. tions than Dec. 15.) 1965. of is month The introduction It also in noted the instruo Fourth week (From Dec.1 15 to this section reads: tion booklet that parents will re to the end of the month.) The ceive other assistance in prep of the home home teachers visit each family aring and. planning their family teacherJs to represent the bish 'and provide them with lesson home evenings. In addition to or and branch quoop manuals for the family home president the lesson manual to be left in rum or group leader with asevening program. each home by Ihe home teachto and families, to help a over the letter signed According ers, of parents will study related the an build active of testimony President David O. signatures individ-Presidelessons in the priesthood quoMcKay and his ' 'counselors, - --restored gospel in each rums and" in Relief Society. ual and greater solidarity in Hugh B. Brown andA manual of lessons for the home each assist the r,President N. Eldon TannpfamilyTo Melchizedek Priesthood weekly teacher in this assignment, brief which accompanied the booklet of instructions, the parents -- - suggestions for his visits and ac- - - quorum or group meetings is in tivities with his families have- - the course of preparation. It is should be told in their meeting been prepared for December, entitled Magnifying the Priest- that the home teachers will hood in the Home,1 and pr- 1964, and each, month, in- 196SL. bring into each home a manual vides suggestions and activities It is suggested that the home outlining weekly lessons and ac- for helping fathers guide and teacher ' at the outset-reativities to be used during the these teach their families. suggestions for all months. He Family Home Evening." should feel free to use sugges- Also twelve Relief Society lea-- . The booklet of instructions ' sent to stake and mission-presi-desons during 19(55 will provide tions listed under one month similar helps and inspiration to contained, in. addition to during another month if he feels the steps of procedure, a mesthey would be timely in meeting, - mothers. The outline for the a particular need with one of first of these Relief. Society lessage by President McKay read at the recent general priesthood sons scheduled for January will his families. For example, for be found in thefeNovember Relief October, there are suggestions meeting; the tAlk of Elder Hay-ol- d Society Magazine. B..Lbq of the Council of the.. regarding a fathers role, in Twelve . given - at - the - same The - recommendation- - being priesthood ordinations. If a child carried into the homes of Lht- . priesthood session. and the talk in an assigned home i to Je ter-daSaints during December blessed, confirmed, or ordained by Elder Richard L. Evans of the Council of the Twelve given in May, the home teacher may by the home teachers counsels families to hold weekly family wish to turn to the October sug- At the Sunday afternoon session of the general conference. home evenings beginnings with gestions for assistance in May. All threeof these, messages the first week in January. These monthly notes- - may - with-membe- rs alsd'-outline- ent nt - i- t Regular tours of the Oakland Temple grounds wifi begin immediately after the dedication of the temple under direction of regular assigned guides. According to W. Paul Summerhays, director of the bureau, hourly tours will be available to visitors or tourists beginning Monday, Nov. 23. These hourly excursions will begin each day at 10 a.m. and continue until 7 p.m. No tours will be conducted on Sundays but the information , bureau will be opened to assist visitors. Guests will assemble at the bureau in the wing of the temple, where they will be shown a film on the building and purpose of temples. The. tours .will include the terrace garden of the temple, the courtyard, and the adjoining chapeland East Bay Interstake Center. Volunteer guides will be recruited from members of the Church in the Bay area. d nts y Week Ending November 14, 1964 . CHURCH- -3 J |