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Responsibility of Talents and Use and Abuse of Wealth

Rulon S. Wells · 1902 April General Conference · 1902-04-04

Fidelity

◕Authoritative print

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.

Witnesses

No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.

Collation history

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. QC scan-tiebreak 2026-07-19: 1 escalated site collated against conferencereport1902a leaves n13/n14 (page break falls mid-sentence at 'kingdom of God. May / He fill us'); vault reading confirmed verbatim against the page images -- witness_wrong (the OCR witness's flat text injected the next talk's running head, 'ELDER BRIGHAM H. ROBERTS' + page number, between the two words at the page break). No vault edit needed. Not a full collation.

Collated word-by-word against the original scan.

Heavyweight pass: collated against the djvu OCR of conferencereport1902a (source_url page anchor already present and confirmed via IA search-inside). Content matches the OCR witness verbatim; boundaries clean, closes at 'Amen' before the next speaker.

Corrections

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.