Joseph F. Smith · 1899 October General Conference · 1899-10-08
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 truncated mid-sentence (~370 words missing), cut off by a mid-body running-head bleed ('PRESIDENT GEORGE Q. CANNON', the next speaker's page-transition catchword). Recovered the missing closing section (a long closing blessing on the General Authorities, Priesthood quorums, and the poor) from the IA djvu OCR (conferencereport1899sa), through the genuine 'Amen'. Fixed an OCR typo ('t'he' -> 'the'). Confirmed date/session/talk_order correct. 0 QC ERRORs.
This is a living critical edition. If you find a transcription, metadata, or sourcing error in this talk, report it to the editors →Reports are collated against the page scan and land as corrections in the vault.