Matthias F. Cowley · 1899 October General Conference · 1899-10-06
Transcribed from the OCR of the official printed Conference Report of the Seventieth Semi-Annual Conference (October 1899), scanned and hosted at the Internet Archive (conferencereport1899sa). OCR was cleaned and corrected: running heads, page numbers, and line-break hyphenation removed; obvious OCR errors fixed. Not yet proofread page-by-page against the scan images, so minor residual OCR errors may remain (status: draft, pending review).
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: this file was severely truncated mid-sentence (~800 words missing), cut off by a mid-body running-head bleed ('ELDER ANTHON H LUND', the next speaker's page-transition catchword). Recovered the missing closing section from the IA djvu OCR (conferencereport1899sa), covering the Ananias/Sapphira account, the law of consecration and tithing, and a closing exhortation, through the genuine 'Amen'. Confirmed date/session/talk_order correct. 0 QC ERRORs.
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