John Smith · 1903 October General Conference · 1903-10-06
Transcribed from the OCR of the official printed Conference Report of the Seventy-fourth Semi-Annual Conference (October 4-6, 1903), hosted at the Internet Archive (conferencereport1903sa).
No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.
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Filled directly from the scan/OCR witness as part of a heavyweight pass; no separate lightweight pass preceded it.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: this file did not previously exist. The talk was found merged, with no proper boundary, into the end of 1903-10-lund-redemption-for-the-dead.md (only an inline 'PATRIARCH JOHN SMITH.' byline marked the transition, not a file split). Transcribed in full, verbatim, against the djvu OCR of conferencereport1903sa. Boundaries confirmed clean: opens at the real byline immediately after Lund's close, ends at 'Amen' before the next item (a musical number, correctly excluded).
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