Adam S. Bennion · 1953 October General Conference · 1953-10-04
Official printed text of the One Hundred Twenty-fourth Semi-Annual (October) General Conference, held October 2, 3, and 4, 1953. The Church History Catalog record for the October 1953 Conference Report could not be independently verified this session (client-rendered catalog site; no browser tool access available); the Internet Archive scan (conferencereport1953sa) 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 109-115); fixed two running-head bleeds ("Third Dan" and "PRESIDENT DAVID O. McKAY") embedded mid-sentence. Bennion had just been sustained to the Quorum of the Twelve at this conference, per the printed roster (leaf 1) listing him among the Twelve.
No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against IA scan/OCR witness; fixed two running-head bleeds embedded mid-sentence.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: page-by-page collation against IA scan conferencereport1953sa (leaves 109-115); confirmed speaker (Adam S. Bennion) and calling (Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, per printed roster leaf 1-2; Bennion references his own recent ordination "by the President of this Church" earlier in the address), session (Sunday Morning General Conference Session, October 4, 1953), and talk_order (fourth and concluding speaker of the session, following Matthew Cowley, per McKay's introduction). Removed two running-head OCR bleeds ("Third Dan"/"Third Day" and "PRESIDENT DAVID O. McKAY") embedded mid-sentence. CHL catalog record for October 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.