Stephen L Richards · 1954 October General Conference · 1954-10-03
Officially published Conference Report; proofread against IA scan conferencereport1954sa (leaves 92-97, printed pp. 92-97). CHL catalog record for October 1954 could not be verified this session (client-rendered SPA, no browser-tool access); 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 against the extended scan range (leaves 92-97).
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: CHL catalog record for October 1954 could not be verified this session (client-rendered SPA, no browser-tool access); IA scan conferencereport1954sa kept as retained top-level source per docs/review.md. Page-by-page collation against the scan (leaves 92-97, printed pp. 92-97) confirms President Stephen L Richards (First Counselor in the First Presidency), Third Day (Sunday, October 3, 1954) morning meeting, first speaker, preceding Elder George Q. Morris. This is his second distinct talk of the conference (the first being the evening priesthood-meeting address on divorce, leaves 79-82, already reviewed as a separate file); confirmed no boundary overlap between the two. Body matches scan verbatim; no missing text. Set exact date, calling, session, and talk_order.
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