Ezra Taft Benson · 1952 October General Conference · 1952-10-05
Official printed text of the One Hundred Twenty-third Semi-Annual (October) General Conference, held October 3, 4, and 5, 1952, as published in the Church Conference Report. Page images were consulted through the Church History Catalog record (Conference Report, October 1952; record c9a74cfb-3a9f-429a-806f-f7ec2ec5a70e) and the Church History Library preservation scan on the Internet Archive (conferencereport1952sa). Heavyweight review collated the text page-by-page against that scan; running heads, page numbers, and hyphenation artifacts were removed. The opening page (leaf 117-118) has a linearized two-column DjVu text layer that reads across both columns; verified the earlier ingestion had already correctly de-interleaved the opening paragraphs (left column top-to-bottom, then right column) against the raw OCR reading-order output; the remainder of the talk (leaf 118 onward) is single-column and reads cleanly. Title supplied from the corrected opening line; corrected the OCR-truncated title.
Authoritative CHL catalog record for the October 1952 Conference Report (Volume 56, No. 2; call no. M204.1 A1 1880, 1897-).
CHL-contributed preservation scan; used as the page-by-page OCR collation surface for this review.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against CHL catalog record plus IA scan/OCR witness, including manual verification of the interleaved two-column opening page; title corrected.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: authoritative source URL verified via Church History Catalog record c9a74cfb-3a9f-429a-806f-f7ec2ec5a70e (Conference Report, October 1952); page-by-page collation against IA scan conferencereport1952sa (leaves 117-121), including manual de-interleaving verification of the linearized two-column opening page; talk boundaries, session, date, calling, and talk_order confirmed against the printed conference schedule and index.
This is a living critical edition. If you find a transcription, metadata, or sourcing error in this talk, report it to the editors →Reports are collated against the page scan and land as corrections in the vault.