Joseph L. Wirthlin · 1953 October General Conference · 1953-10-02
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 12-16); fixed an interleaved-column artifact mid-paragraph and a stray-period OCR error; body otherwise matched the scan closely.
No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against IA scan/OCR witness; fixed a two-column interleaving defect and a stray-period OCR typo.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: page-by-page collation against IA scan conferencereport1953sa (leaves 12-16); confirmed speaker (Bishop Joseph L. Wirthlin, Presiding Bishop of the Church, per printed roster and McKay's introduction), calling (Presiding Bishopric, per printed General Authorities roster leaf 1-2), session (First Day Morning Meeting, Friday, October 2, 1953), and talk_order (second speaker, following President McKay's opening address). Fixed a two-column interleaving defect that had merged the end of the Luke 10:1 sentence with the start of the Acts 15:2 paragraph, and noted the printed source itself truncates the Luke 10:1 sentence at a page break ("whither he, the Church, would") rather than restoring an invented word. 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.