Mark E. Petersen · 1953 October General Conference · 1953-10-03
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 74-77); fixed a stray-parenthesis OCR artifact and a missing question mark, and noted the printed source itself truncates one sentence at a page break rather than restoring an invented clause.
No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against IA scan/OCR witness; fixed a stray-parenthesis OCR artifact and a missing question mark.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: page-by-page collation against IA scan conferencereport1953sa (leaves 74-77); confirmed speaker (Mark E. Petersen, 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 (General Priesthood Meeting, Saturday evening, October 3, 1953, per the session header), and talk_order (first speaker of the evening, per McKay's introduction). Fixed a stray-parenthesis OCR artifact ("to( have") and a missing closing question mark; noted the printed source itself truncates the sentence "to keep the enemy from invading our" at a page break rather than restoring an invented clause. 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.