Stephen L Richards · 1955 October General Conference · 1955-10-01
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), pp. 88-89. Reading order rebuilt from the item's DjVu OCR word coordinates (scripts/ingest/cr-reading-order.py). Never previously ingested into the vault; flagged missing by the 2026 heavyweight review of this conference and ingested in this pass. President McKay's introduction identifies him as "President Stephen L Richards," matching the printed calling line under his name. Running heads, page numbers, and leaf markers removed; de-hyphenated line breaks and reflowed paragraphs; the decorative drop-cap opening ("A few years ago...") restored without altering wording. One of two distinct Stephen L Richards addresses in this conference; the other is the Sunday Morning Session missionary-work address (1955-10-richards-my-dear-brethren-and-sisters-i-thank).
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Ingested from the conferencereport1955sa DjVu XML reading order (leaf 88-89) to fill a gap flagged in the prior heavyweight review pass (progress/reports/conference-reports/1955-10.md), which found this General Priesthood Meeting address never ingested. Collated directly against the reconstructed page text; verbatim from opening to closing 'Amen' with only mechanical OCR/hyphenation cleanup, no paraphrase.
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