ElRay L. Christiansen · 1953 April General Conference · 1953-04-04
Official printed text of the One Hundred Twenty-third Annual (April) General Conference, held April 4, 5, and 6, 1953. The Church History Catalog record for the April 1953 Conference Report could not be independently verified this session (client-rendered catalog site; no browser access available); the Internet Archive scan (conferencereport1953a) is retained as the top-level source rather than guessing a record ID. Heavyweight review collated the text page-by-page against that scan (leaves 34-37); removed running-head bleeds ("ELDER ELRAY L. CHRISTIANSEN 35/37", "GENERAL CONFERENCE 36 Saturday, April 4", "First Day", and an OCR misread of the speaker's own running head as "ELDER ANTOINE R. WINS" at the talk's close, which belongs to the following speaker's page); corrected the de-hyphenation artifact "selfsufficiency" to "self-sufficiency" (twice); separated scripture block-quotes (Mosiah 3:19, 4:19, Alma 38:11-12, D&C 59:5-10,21, D&C 38:24-25,39,41) from surrounding prose.
No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against IA scan/OCR witness; removed running-head bleeds, fixed de-hyphenation artifacts, reflowed scripture blocks.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: page-by-page collation against IA scan conferencereport1953a (leaves 34-37); talk boundaries, session (First Day Afternoon Meeting), date (Saturday, April 4, 1953), calling, and talk_order (fourth speaker, following Levi Edgar Young per President McKay's introduction) confirmed against the printed text. CHL catalog record for April 1953 could not be verified with available tools this session; kept IA scan as source per docs/review.md rather than fabricate a record ID.
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