Ezra Taft Benson · 1954 April General Conference · 1954-04-04
Officially published Conference Report; proofread against IA scan conferencereport1954a (leaf 56-60, printed pp. 56-60). No CHL/official-Church verification could be completed this session (client-rendered SPA catalog not reachable by available tools); IA retained as top-level source per docs/review.md.
No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against the official/CHL/JSP source plus scan/OCR witness; restored roughly the back half of the talk (from "It is reassuring to see men in high places..." through the closing "Amen") that had been cut off mid-sentence in the prior draft — the ingestion had silently truncated the file after the Eisenhower inaugural-prayer quotation.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: CHL catalog record for April 1954 could not be verified this session (client-rendered SPA, no browser tool access); IA scan conferencereport1954a kept as retained top-level source per docs/review.md. Page-by-page collation against the scan (leaf 56-60, printed pp. 56-60) found the previous draft was truncated partway through the talk (cut off after the Eisenhower inaugural-prayer quotation, missing roughly the final half including the Liberty Jail D&C 121-122 passage, several other D&C citations on fear/trust, the Lincoln "ten angels" quotation, and the closing testimony and prayer). Restored the missing text verbatim from the scan. Confirmed this is Elder Ezra Taft Benson's (Quorum of the Twelve Apostles) address in the Second Day Morning Meetings, Sunday, April 4, 1954, immediately following Elder LeGrand Richards and the final talk of that session before adjournment. Set talk_order 10, exact date, calling, and session.
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