David O. McKay · 1967 April General Conference · 1967-04-09
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. 135-137. 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 did not deliver this closing address in person; per President N. Eldon Tanner's introduction, "Elder Robert R. McKay, who has read so beautifully the inspiring messages of his father, our President and a prophet of God, will now read his concluding address to us," matching the printed calling line "(Read by his son Robert R. McKay)." This is the closing address of the conference, immediately following Elder Boyd K. Packer's talk (already in the vault) and Tanner's intervening thank-you/administrative announcements (omitted from this transcript), and ending with the conference's adjournment sine die. 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.
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Ingested from the conferencereport1967a DjVu XML reading order (leaf 135-137) to fill a gap flagged in the prior heavyweight review pass (progress/reports/conference-reports/1967-04.md), which found President McKay's closing 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 preceding Packer talk and Tanner's administrative announcements, and against the following Tabernacle Choir and Organ broadcast (a separate program, not a discourse, already in the vault as a distinct item).
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