David O. McKay · 1966 April General Conference · 1966-04-09
OCR ingestion with auto-cleaning and paragraph reflowing against the Internet Archive conferencereport1966a scan. Archive snapshot pending.
No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against the Internet Archive Conference Report OCR (conferencereport1966a); body verified against scan.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Ingestion of a missing discourse: a message prepared by President McKay and read to the General Priesthood Meeting by his son Robert R. McKay (health-limited that evening), warning against rising crime and declining moral standards and counseling fathers to use family home evening to build faith. This is a distinct message from McKay's similarly-themed 1965 April 'Safeguards Against Delinquency' address (already ingested as 1965-04-mckay-my-brethren-and-sisters-as-i.md) — same opening Pauline epigraph reused a year later, but different supporting material and conclusion. Flagged as missing in a prior heavyweight pass's note on the sibling Tanner file (1966-04-tanner-brethren-it-is-good-to-be-with.md), which observed 'President David O. McKay's closing address to this Priesthood Meeting (index leaf n105-110) was never ingested into the vault at all.' Rebuilt page reading order from conferencereport1966a's DjVu XML word-coordinate data (scripts/ingest/cr-reading-order.py); confirmed this immediately follows President N. Eldon Tanner's Word of Wisdom address (already ingested) via President Hugh B. Brown's introduction, and immediately precedes a separate, formally captioned 'Statement concerning the position of the Church on Communism' also read by Robert R. McKay (ingested separately as 1966-04-mckay-in-order-that-there.md), distinguishing the genuine talk heading and its own closing 'Amen' from misOCR'd running-head repeats of 'PRESIDENT DAVID O. McKAY' bleeding onto the tail of Tanner's own pages (leaves 105/107/109 are recto running heads for whichever address is current, not new talk boundaries). De-hyphenated and reflowed against the scan text. Renumbered talk_order 26, shifting the conference's remaining Third Day and closing talks (previously 26-36) to 28-38 to make room for this and the following Communism-statement item.
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