Richard L. Evans · 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 128-129); the light-review draft body already matched the scan closely (the "Ipray" run-together OCR error had already been split correctly); no further corrections needed beyond the opening-title case fix.
No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against IA scan/OCR witness; confirmed body text already matched the scan; fixed title casing.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: page-by-page collation against IA scan conferencereport1953sa (leaves 128-129); confirmed speaker (Richard L. Evans) and calling — per the printed roster footnote (leaf 1), Evans was sustained at this very conference (October 4) as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles to fill the vacancy left by the death of Albert E. Bowen, and McKay's introduction confirms "whom you have this day sustained as a member of the Council of the Twelve"; calling_at_time reflects his new office at the moment of this address, superseding his prior calling as a member of the First Council of the Seventy. Session (Third Day Afternoon Meeting, Sunday, October 4, 1953) and talk_order (fourth speaker of the afternoon session, following ElRay L. Christiansen, per McKay's introduction naming Evans then Hanks next) confirmed. No OCR corrections were needed beyond a title-casing fix. 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.
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