Thorpe B. Isaacson · 1955 April General Conference · 1955-04-03
Officially published Conference Report; proofread against IA scan conferencereport1955a (leaves 43-45, printed pp. 43-45). CHL catalog record for April 1955 could not be verified this session (client-rendered SPA; Chrome extension unreachable this session); IA retained as top-level source per docs/review.md. Discourse appears on pp. 43-45. Title is supplied (Conference Report discourses of this era were untitled).
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Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: CHL catalog record for April 1955 could not be verified this session (client-rendered SPA, Chrome extension unreachable); IA scan conferencereport1955a kept as retained top-level source per docs/review.md. Page-by-page collation against the scan (leaves 43-45, printed pp. 43-45) shows the prior ingestion had captured the wrong discourse entirely: the body it contained ('because we are his children...Amen') is actually the tail end of Elder Eldred G. Smith's preceding talk (running head on leaf 43 reads 'BISHOP THORPE B. ISAACSON' but the text at the top of that page is Smith's continuation and close — this Conference Report's running heads name the speaker who is introduced later on the page, not necessarily the one speaking in the opening lines). Bishop Isaacson's actual discourse ('President McKay, President Richards, President Clark, my beloved brethren...') begins after President McKay's introduction on leaf 43 and runs through leaf 45 to its own 'Amen,' immediately followed by McKay introducing Elder Ezra Taft Benson. Replaced the file's body in full with this genuine discourse, transcribed and reflowed verbatim from the scan; the previously mis-captured Eldred G. Smith material was not discarded — Smith's true talk (leaf 41-43) remains a separate, currently unfilled gap (see progress notes) and this file's old content did not represent a complete record of it. Second Day (Sunday, April 3, 1955) afternoon session, second speaker, following Elder Eldred G. Smith and preceding Elder Ezra Taft Benson. Set exact date, calling, session, and talk_order.
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