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Show Latter-day Saint Church Plans Gigantic Youth Rally Jan. 3 Some of the subjects to be reated are: adherence to church standards of conduct, choosing of friends, responsibility of young men to young women they date, responsibilities of young women in dating relationships, chaper-onage chaper-onage of dates, "steady" dating, use of car in dating, dangers of "petting" and "necking" on dates dating on the Sabbath, and dating dat-ing and ultimate marriage. Church leaders who will discuss dis-cuss these themes are Elders Harold B. Lee, Spencer W. Kimball Kim-ball and Howard W. Hunter, all members of the church's Council Coun-cil of Twelve Apostles, and Elder Masion D. Hanks, member of the churoh's First Council of Seventy. Seven-ty. Elder Hanks is also a member mem-ber of President Eisenhower's Citizen's Advisory Committee on Youth Fitness. Actually the rallies will be international in-ternational in scope, since a number num-ber of stakes in Canada and Mexico Mex-ico will also be included in the project. A gigantic youth rally in which nearly a half -million young members mem-bers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will assemble assem-ble simultaneously in 122 mass meetings throughout the United States has been called for Jan. 3, 1960. This will be the kick-off of a 13-week series of Sunday night gatherings in - which the young people will hear messages of inspiration in-spiration and counsel from top church officials, and will discuss among themselves the problems facing youth today. The January 3 meetings will be tuned in on a nation-wide closed clos-ed circuit broadcast (8:00 p.m. MST) from the Salt Lake Mormon Mor-mon Tabernacle in, which it is expected ex-pected President David O. McKay, Mc-Kay, 86-year-old head of the church, will give the keynote address. ad-dress. Each of the 12 subsequent Sunday Sun-day night meetings or "firesides" will be keynoted by other leading lead-ing church officials in Salt Lake City, their addresses being relayed re-layed by radio broadcast or recordings recor-dings to young people assembled in more than 2,000 separate ward or neighborhood groups. In each case, local programs and discussions discus-sions will follow the theme message. mes-sage. Purpose of the meetings, as outlined by church officials, is "to stimulate greater faith and devotion, and to protect the young people against tendencies toward delinquency abroad in the land today." |