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Brethren and Sisters, We Are Nearing the End...

David O. McKay · 1963 April General Conference · 1963-04-07

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OCR ingestion with auto-cleaning and paragraph reflowing against the Internet Archive conferencereport1963a scan. Archive snapshot pending.

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Proofread against the source text.

Proofread against the Internet Archive conferencereport1963a 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 closing remarks on the 'radiation' of individual and home character, Third Day Afternoon Meeting) omitted from the earlier heavyweight pass over this conference. Rebuilt page reading order from conferencereport1963a's DjVu XML word-coordinate data (scripts/ingest/cr-reading-order.py); confirmed this is McKay speaking immediately after Gordon B. Hinckley's address (already ingested as 1963-04-hinckley-my-beloved-associates-in-the-work-of.md) through the conference's adjournment for six months, and before the separate Church of the Air Broadcast appendix entry (already ingested as 1963-04-tanner-it-is-with-a-feeling-of-humility.md). De-hyphenated and reflowed against the scan text. Renumbered talk_order across all existing 1963-04 files to seat this as the conference's final talk, ahead of the Church of the Air appendix entry, matching the 1956-10/1957-04/1958-04/1958-10/1959-04/1959-10/1961-04/1961-10/1962-04/1962-10/1969-10 precedent for reinserting missing McKay discourses.

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