Joseph F. Smith · 1900 April General Conference · 1900-04-08
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; fixed residual OCR typos (e.g. 'hfe'->'he', 'belteved'->'believed', 'drough'->'drought'), corrected a duplicated-sentence/misplaced-quote artifact left from the earlier draft's scripted cleanup.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: source verified against archive.org conferencereport1900a leaf 46 (page/n47 already recorded). Synopsis 'Importance of the law of tithing -- A source of revenue and a Means of distinguishing the faithful from the unfaithful -- None should be denied the privilege of obeying this law' confirms title/topic and speaker (President Joseph F. Smith, Second Counselor in the First Presidency, Third Day Morning Session). Boundary confirmed clean: opens directly after Elder Rudger Clawson's close and ends '...is my prayer in the name of Jesus, Amen.' immediately before Elder William H. Smart's talk begins. No adjacent-speaker or session-business bleed. While reconstructing the paragraph containing the D&C 85 quotation about the widow, found and corrected a duplicated-sentence/misplaced-quotation artifact from the earlier draft (a sentence had been inserted twice, splitting a scripture block). Body content verified word-for-word against the IA djvu OCR reading order; fixed residual OCR typos throughout.
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