Stephen L Richards · 1955 October General Conference · 1955-10-02
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. 96-100. 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 of the First Presidency," matching the printed calling line under his name, and confirms he opened the Sunday Morning Session (Elder George Q. Morris followed). Running heads, page numbers, and leaf markers removed; de-hyphenated line breaks and reflowed paragraphs; corrected scattered OCR noise in the opening paragraph without altering wording. One of two distinct Stephen L Richards addresses in this conference; the other is the General Priesthood Meeting address (1955-10-richards-a-few-years-ago-i-stood-on).
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Ingested from the conferencereport1955sa DjVu XML reading order (leaf 96-100) to fill a gap flagged in the prior heavyweight review pass (progress/reports/conference-reports/1955-10.md), which found this Sunday Morning Session address never ingested. Collated directly against the reconstructed page text; verbatim from opening to closing 'Amen' with only mechanical OCR/hyphenation cleanup, no paraphrase. Confirmed the talk boundary against the following speaker, George Q. Morris (already in the vault), whose introduction by President McKay immediately follows this talk's closing prayer.
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