David O. McKay · 1967 April General Conference · 1967-04-06
Transcribed from the official printed Conference Report of the One Hundred Thirty-seventh Annual (April 1967) General Conference, digitized by the Church History Library and hosted at the Internet Archive (item conferencereport1967a), pp. 6-10. 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, present at this session but under doctor's orders not to speak at length, did not deliver this prepared address in person; per President Hugh B. Brown's introduction, "acting on the advice of his physician, he has asked his son, Robert, to read his message," matching the printed calling line "(Read by his son Robert R. McKay)." Running heads, page numbers, and leaf markers removed; de-hyphenated line breaks and reflowed paragraphs; printed editorial side-heads preserved as Markdown headings without altering wording.
No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.
Proofread against the source text.
Light review: in-context proofread against the heavyweight collation already on file; no additional wording changes needed.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Ingested from the conferencereport1967a DjVu XML reading order (leaf 6-10) to fill a gap flagged in the prior heavyweight review pass (progress/reports/conference-reports/1967-04.md), which found President McKay's opening address never ingested. Collated directly against the reconstructed page text; verbatim from opening to closing 'Amen' with only mechanical OCR/hyphenation cleanup and restoration of the printed side-heads, no paraphrase. Confirmed the boundary against the following Richard L. Evans talk (already in the vault).
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