Delbert L. Stapley · 1955 April General Conference · 1955-04-04
Officially published Conference Report; proofread against IA scan conferencereport1955a (leaves 65-68, printed pp. 65-68). 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. 65-68. Title is supplied (Conference Report discourses of this era were untitled).
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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 65-68, printed pp. 65-68) shows the prior ingestion had mislabeled this discourse: the body it contained ('days of the Prophet of God who died in the year 1844...Amen') was actually the tail end of Elder Marion D. Hanks' preceding address (now merged into id: 1955-04-hanks-1-should-like-to-join-briefly-with). Elder Delbert L. Stapley's own, separate discourse ('Bishop Buehner, commenting upon the limited time allotted us in life...') begins immediately after Hanks' 'Amen' on leaf 65 and runs through leaf 68 to its own close, closing out the Third Day (Monday, April 4, 1955) morning session; replaced the body in full with this genuine discourse, transcribed and reflowed verbatim from the scan, merging in the continuation previously mis-split into a separate file under the running-head OCR fragment 'ELDER DELBE / T L. STAPLEY' (id: 1955-04-delbe-path-i-would-ask-if-all-is, now deleted as a duplicate — same discourse, not a separate talk). Third Day morning session, following Elder Marion D. Hanks and closing the session (President Ernest Wilkinson invited to the rostrum next, followed by the afternoon meeting). Set exact date, calling, session, and talk_order.
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