George Q. Cannon · 1897 October General Conference · 1897-10-06
Transcribed from the OCR of the official printed Conference Report of the Sixty-eighth Semi-Annual Conference (October 1897), scanned by the Church History Library and hosted at the Internet Archive (conferencereport1897sa). Heavyweight pass collated the full talk against the IA djvu OCR page-by-page.
No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.
Proofread against the source text.
Light review: in-context proofread, synopsis/session-artifact cleanup, and spacing fixes. NOT a full page-by-page scan collation.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: confirmed via IA djvu OCR (conferencereport1897sa) that this file and the now-deleted 1897-10-cannon-repentance-and-confession.md were a single continuous discourse artificially split by an earlier ingestion pass, which mistook a mid-sentence running head ('PRESIDENT GEORGE Q. CANNON. 69') for a new talk boundary -- the two files' text joins mid-sentence ('...you are all' / 'right again. Do not delude yourselves...'). Merged the two into this one file, covering the whole printed subject list (Mission of the Saints -- How Satan will be bound -- Approaching Judgments -- Wickedness of the world -- Cleansing process in progress -- Who are the children of God? -- The Spirit of Revelation with the Church -- Return of the Ten Tribes) through its genuine closing 'Amen'. Removed a leaked fragment of the printed subject-list ('world -- Cleansing process...') that had bled into the start of this file's body as if it were prose. A further 'CLOSING REMARKS' fragment that the old repentance-and-confession.md had wrongly appended after Cannon's Amen was Wilford Woodruff's separate closing discourse, not Cannon's -- moved to 1897-10-woodruff-closing-address.md. talk_order renumbered from 5/6 to 3 within Third Day Afternoon Session after upstream reshuffling (see conference notes). Fixed OCR errors (Avhen->when, righteouness->righteousness, antedeluvian->antediluvian, daring->during, or His prophets->of His prophets). 0 QC ERRORs.
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