David O. McKay · 1926 October General Conference · 1926-10-04
Transcribed from the OCR of the official printed Conference Report published by the Deseret News and hosted at the Internet Archive (conferencereport1926sa). Running heads, page numbers, and line-break hyphenation removed.
No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against the official/CHL/JSP source plus scan/OCR witness; fixed OCR letter-garbles (Filate/Pilate, pruper/proper, simoking/smoking); retitled from a mid-sentence-truncated opening-quote fragment to the talk's first printed sub-heading ('The World Needs Men'); corrected session to Second Day Afternoon Session and date to 1926-10-04 (exact) per OCR session headers.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: authoritative source URL verified (archive.org conferencereport1926sa, printed page 112); page-by-page collation against scan/OCR witness confirms clean boundaries (follows Elder Hyrum G. Smith's address and the intervening solo, correctly excluded, within the Second Day Afternoon Session, Monday, October 4, 1926; talk closes cleanly before Elder Joseph Fielding Smith's address begins). Corrected session/date metadata, fixed unambiguous OCR letter-garbles, and replaced the previous title (a mid-quotation fragment cut off at a line-wrap) with the talk's own printed first sub-heading, consistent with how other talks in this batch are titled.
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