Harold B. Lee · 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), a Church History Library-contributed preservation copy, 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 24-28); removed running-head bleeds ("ELDER HAROLD B. LEE 25/27", "GENERAL CONFERENCE 26/28 Saturday, April 4", "First Day"); separated numerous scripture block-quotations that OCR had run into the surrounding prose paragraphs (John 5:25-26, 1 Peter 3:18-20, Matt. 24:14, D&C 88:81-82, Alma 34:33, Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith excerpts, Moses 1:39, D&C 128:11, D&C 21:4-6, D&C 121:26,32-33, Matt. 16:18) into their own paragraphs matching the printed layout.
No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against IA scan/OCR witness; removed running-head bleeds, reflowed scripture block-quotes into separate paragraphs.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: page-by-page collation against IA scan conferencereport1953a (leaves 24-28); talk boundaries, session (First Day Afternoon Meeting), date (Saturday, April 4, 1953), calling, and talk_order (first speaker of the session, 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.
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.