Heber J. Grant · 1900 April General Conference · 1900-04-07
Transcribed from the OCR of the official printed Conference Report of the Seventieth Annual Conference (April 1900), scanned and hosted at the Internet Archive (conferencereport1900a). OCR was cleaned and corrected: running heads, page numbers, and line-break hyphenation removed; obvious OCR errors fixed.
No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against the official/CHL/JSP source plus scan/OCR witness; de-interleaved a genuinely two-column page (leaf 24, printed page 24) using the IA page image, and fixed residual OCR typos.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: source verified against archive.org conferencereport1900a leaf 21 (page/n22 already recorded). Synopsis 'Individual Progress in the work of God depends upon obedience to God's Commandments -- To become great it is not necessary to behold Angels and have great spiritual manifestations -- Eternal life the greatest gift of God to man -- The Church organ should be sustained' confirms title/topic and speaker (Elder Heber J. Grant, Council of the Twelve, Second Day Morning Session). Boundary confirmed clean: opens directly after the Second Day opening hymns/prayer and closes '...I ask it in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.' immediately before Elder John W. Taylor's talk begins. Printed page 24 (leaf 25) is a standard two-column layout that the automated reading-order script mis-joined band-by-band; fetched the IA page image directly (IIIF conferencereport1900a$26) and reconstructed the correct left-column-then-right-column order, which resolved a garbled passage ('advancement of God's kingdom? I say...' incorrectly spliced mid-sentence in the prior draft). Body content verified word-for-word against both the OCR reading order and the page image for the affected page; fixed residual OCR typos throughout (e.g. 'Gosoel'->'Gospel', 'UDon'->'upon', 'cirticising'->'criticising', 'surounded'->'surrounded').
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