David O. McKay · 1955 October General Conference · 1955-09-30
Transcribed from the official printed Conference Report of the One Hundred Twenty-sixth Semiannual (October 1955) General Conference, digitized by the Church History Library and hosted at the Internet Archive (item conferencereport1955sa). Text taken from the Internet Archive OCR and cleaned by hand (running heads and line-break hyphenation removed, decorative drop-cap garble in the opening sentence restored, paragraphing restored). Not yet proofread line-by-line against the page images; a final scan check is still needed. Grade reflects the officially published Conference Report. Opening address of the conference, pp. 4-9. Title is supplied (Conference Report discourses of this era were untitled).
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