George Teasdale · 1900 April General Conference · 1900-04-06
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 21, printed page 20) using word-coordinate reconstruction verified against 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 18-21 (printed pages 18-20; page/n19 already recorded as start). Synopsis 'The Saints trust in the Lord -- Cause of the opposition of the world -- Exhortation to faithfulness -- A plea for liberty' confirms title/topic and speaker (Elder George Teasdale, Council of the Twelve). Boundary confirmed clean: opens directly after Elder John Henry Smith's close and ends with 'Amen' immediately before Elder Heber J. Grant's Second Day talk begins ('SECOND DAY' session header follows). Printed page 20 (leaf 21) 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$21) and confirmed the correct order is left column in full then right column in full ('...We take our little' + 'children to our Sabbath schools...' as the true join, not the reading-order script's alternate join). Body content verified word-for-word against both the OCR reading order and the page image for the ambiguous page; fixed residual OCR typos throughout (e.g. 'theworkers'->'the workers', 'onetenth'->'one-tenth', 'knowth'->'knoweth', 'bet?'->'bed', 'liRht'->'light', 'prinPiDl-s'->'principles').
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