Matthew Cowley · 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 106-109); fixed a digit/letter OCR misread at the opening ("1 trust" to "I trust", also corrected in title) and two stray-punctuation artifacts.
No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against IA scan/OCR witness; fixed a digit/letter misread at the opening and two stray-punctuation OCR typos.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: page-by-page collation against IA scan conferencereport1953sa (leaves 106-109); confirmed speaker (Matthew Cowley, of the Council of the Twelve Apostles, per printed byline and McKay's introduction), calling (Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, per printed roster leaf 1-2), session (Sunday Morning General Conference Session, October 4, 1953), and talk_order (third speaker of the session, following George Q. Morris, per McKay's introduction naming Cowley then Bennion next). Fixed a digit/letter OCR misread at the opening ("1 trust" to "I trust") and two stray-punctuation artifacts. 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.