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My Dear Brethren And Sisters I Thank...

George Q. Morris · 1953 October General Conference · 1953-10-04

Fidelity

◕Authoritative print

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 104-106); fixed an opening small-caps artifact; body otherwise matched the scan closely.

Witnesses

No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.

Collation history

Proofread against the source text.

Proofread against IA scan/OCR witness; fixed an opening small-caps artifact.

Collated word-by-word against the original scan.

Heavyweight pass: page-by-page collation against IA scan conferencereport1953sa (leaves 104-106); confirmed speaker (George Q. Morris, Assistant to the Council of the Twelve Apostles, per printed byline and McKay's introduction/closing identification), calling (Assistants to the Twelve, per printed roster leaf 1-2), session (Sunday Morning General Conference Session, October 4, 1953), and talk_order (second speaker of the session, following Stephen L Richards). Fixed an opening small-caps drop-line artifact. 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.

Corrections

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.