Matthew Cowley · 1953 April General Conference · 1953-04-05
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 93-95); the closing page (leaf 95) is a two-column layout that the light-review draft had left interleaved word-by-word ("...restoration of health to you and your you are of the kingdom of heaven. God companions. grant that we may all have your faith, But, Joe, continue to rely upon your I pray, in the name of Jesus Christ. God. Whatever the results may be, Amen."); de-interleaved by reading the left column top-to-bottom then the right column, restoring the closing sentence to its correct order.
No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against IA scan/OCR witness; de-interleaved a two-column-bleed closing sentence that the light review had left scrambled.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: page-by-page collation against IA scan conferencereport1953a (leaves 93-95); talk boundaries, session (Second Day Afternoon Meeting), date (Sunday, April 5, 1953), calling, and talk_order (fifth speaker, following Thorpe B. Isaacson per President McKay's introduction) confirmed against the printed text. Fixed a genuine two-column OCR interleaving defect in the closing lines (see fidelity_notes) — the light-review pass had missed this. 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.
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.