Centennial Lectures

We originally planned to print a smaller special Centennial Lectures issue as a supplement to the regular summer issue on the history of the Church. But too few acceptable manuscripts on the history of the Church in Nauvoo came in to make a separate number. The result was an Editorial Board decision to make the Centennial Lectures number a double issue in one and let it be the regular Summer 1976 issue. We consequently present here eighteen selected lectures given at Brigham Young University during its Centennial year, April 1975–April 1976.

Our first lecture is President Spencer W. Kimball’s “Second Century Address,” given at the Founder’s Day Convocation on 10 October 1976. Because it sets the theme and challenge of this issue it appears first and all the other lectures follow in the chronology of their presentation.