David O. McKay · 1956 April General Conference · 1956-04-08
Transcribed from the official printed Conference Report of the One Hundred Twenty-sixth Annual (April 1956) General Conference, digitized by the Church History Library and hosted at the Internet Archive (item conferencereport1956a), pp. 121-124. 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. This is President McKay's closing address of the conference, delivered as presiding officer immediately following Elder Spencer W. Kimball's talk, with no separate speaker introduction (standard practice for the presiding officer's closing remarks); it ends with the benediction announcement and the conference's adjournment sine die. Running heads, page numbers, and leaf markers removed; de-hyphenated line breaks and reflowed paragraphs; corrected isolated OCR character errors without altering wording. One of two distinct David O. McKay addresses in this conference; the other is the First Day Morning Meeting opening address (1956-04-mckay-some-helpful-hints-for-happy-homes).
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Ingested from the conferencereport1956a DjVu XML reading order (leaf 121-124) to fill a gap flagged in the prior heavyweight review pass (progress/reports/conference-reports/1956-04.md), which found President McKay's addresses 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 boundary against the preceding Kimball talk (already in the vault) and the following session-closing announcements (adjournment sine die), which are administrative, not discourse, and were left out of the transcript per the vault's inclusion policy.
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