Stephen L Richards · 1955 April General Conference · 1955-04-03
Officially published Conference Report; proofread against IA scan conferencereport1955a (leaves 37-41, printed pp. 37-41). 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. 37-41. Title is supplied (Conference Report discourses of this era were untitled).
No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.
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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 37-41, printed pp. 37-41) shows the prior ingestion had captured the wrong discourse: the two-paragraph body it contained ('themselves. In conclusion, I leave this parting word...Amen') was actually only the closing lines of President Stephen L Richards' address (mislabeled 'Eldred G. Smith' from the leaf-41 running head, which in this Conference Report names the speaker introduced later on the page, not necessarily the one speaking in the opening lines). Replaced the file's body in full with President Richards' complete discourse ('My dear brethren and sisters, I rejoice with you in this great conference...'), transcribed and reflowed verbatim from the scan, opening the Second Day (Sunday, April 3, 1955) afternoon session as first speaker, following the session's opening exercises and preceding Elder Eldred G. Smith. Elder Smith's own talk (leaf 41-43) remains a separate, currently unfilled gap in the corpus (not part of this file). Set exact date, calling, session, and talk_order.
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