David O. McKay · 1959 October General Conference · 1959-10-10
OCR ingestion with auto-cleaning and paragraph reflowing against the Internet Archive conferencereport1959sa scan. Archive snapshot pending.
No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against the Internet Archive conferencereport1959sa scan/OCR; confirmed body text, date/session metadata, and talk boundaries against the surrounding running heads.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Ingestion of a missing discourse (McKay's remarks on resisting temptation and keeping temple marriage covenants, General Priesthood Meeting) omitted from the earlier heavyweight pass over this conference. Rebuilt page reading order from conferencereport1959sa's DjVu XML word-coordinate data (scripts/ingest/cr-reading-order.py); confirmed this is McKay speaking immediately after a President J. Reuben Clark, Jr. priesthood address (not yet ingested; out of scope for this McKay-focused pass) and Henry D. Moyle's priesthood address (already ingested as 1959-10-moyle-my-brethren-this-is-a-solemn-moment.md), through the meeting's adjournment. The opening attendance-report and servicemen's-letter material is kept as part of the discourse (not excluded as administrative) because it flows without a break into McKay's substantive teaching on temptation and marriage covenants, matching how the 1956-10/1957-04 priesthood addresses were ingested. De-hyphenated and reflowed against the scan text. Renumbered talk_order across all existing 1959-10 files to seat this address after the existing Moyle priesthood address, matching the 1956-10/1957-04/1958-04/1958-10/1959-04/1962-04/1962-10/1969-10 precedent for reinserting missing McKay discourses.
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