Matthias F. Cowley · 1902 April General Conference · 1902-04-06
Transcribed from the OCR of the official printed Conference Report of the Seventy-Second Annual Conference (April 4-6, 1902), hosted at the Internet Archive (conferencereport1902a). OCR corrected by hand (running heads and line-break hyphenation removed, paragraphing restored, obvious OCR errors corrected). Not yet proofread line-by-line against page images. Grade reflects the officially published Conference Report.
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. Tier 2 header/metadata pass (2026-07-17, samuel-baird): rejoined attested midword-hyphenation line-wrap artifact(s) flagged by qc (result is a dictionary-word/complete-word reading; no scan needed).
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: collated against the djvu OCR of conferencereport1902a (source_url page anchor confirmed). Found the body was truncated mid-sentence at 'in the 29th chapter of the Book of'; restored the missing closing paragraphs (a Book of Mormon quotation from Alma 29 plus a brief close) verbatim from the scan. Confirmed the talk genuinely ends without 'Amen' (a scriptural quotation as the closing testimony) immediately before Elder John W. Taylor's next talk.
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