Delbert L. Stapley · 1953 April General Conference · 1953-04-06
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 117-120); removed a stray leading period before "Our most important possession is the gospel"; rejoined an OCR-split name ("President David O. / McKay"); separated the Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 4 Nephi 15-16, I John 2:15-17, and the second Joseph Smith prophecy quotation from surrounding prose.
No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against IA scan/OCR witness; removed a stray punctuation artifact, rejoined a split name, reflowed several scripture/discourse quotations.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: page-by-page collation against IA scan conferencereport1953a (leaves 117-120); talk boundaries, session (Third Day Morning Meeting), date (Monday, April 6, 1953), calling, and talk_order (fifth and final speaker of the session, following Carl W. Buehner 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.