Stephen L Richards · 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 85-87); fixed a running-head bleed ("PRESIDENT DAVID O. McKAY") embedded mid-sentence and confirmed the talk's true close (before McKay's separate closing remarks, which follow as a distinct address and are not part of this file).
No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against IA scan/OCR witness; fixed a running-head bleed embedded mid-sentence.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: page-by-page collation against IA scan conferencereport1953sa (leaves 85-87); confirmed speaker (Stephen L Richards, First Counselor in the First Presidency, per printed byline), calling (per printed byline, more specific than the flat "First Presidency" facet), session (General Priesthood Meeting, Saturday evening, October 3, 1953), and talk_order (third speaker of the evening, following LeGrand Richards). Removed a running-head OCR bleed ("PRESIDENT DAVID O. McKAY") embedded mid-sentence, and confirmed the talk's true closing boundary ("Amen") against the scan — McKay's own separate closing remarks that follow on the same leaf belong to a distinct, unfiled address, not this talk. 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.