Joseph Fielding Smith · 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 57-60); fixed one OCR character misread ("Lol" to "Lo!").
No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against IA scan/OCR witness; fixed one OCR character misread.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: page-by-page collation against IA scan conferencereport1953sa (leaves 57-60); confirmed speaker (Joseph Fielding Smith, President of the Council of the Twelve Apostles, per printed byline and McKay's introduction), calling (per printed byline, more specific than the flat "Quorum of the Twelve Apostles" facet — he was President of the Twelve at this conference, prior to his 1970 accession as Church President), session (Second Day Afternoon Meeting, Saturday, October 3, 1953), and talk_order (first speaker of the afternoon session, per McKay's introduction naming Smith then Buehner next). Fixed one OCR character misread ("Lol" to "Lo!"). 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.