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Refuting Charges Against Joseph Smith and Mormonism

Orson F. Whitney · 1906 October General Conference · 1906-10-07

Fidelity

◕Authoritative print

Heavyweight page-by-page collation against the Internet Archive scan/OCR of the official printed Conference Report of the Seventy-Seventh Semi-Annual Conference (conferencereport1906sa). Talk boundary, exact session/date/order metadata, and source anchor checked against the report text. Removed trailing session-closing material (closing anthem, benediction credit, adjournment note, and a leaked fragment of the following Overflow Meeting section header) from the body end. OCR misreads corrected against the witness; quoted scripture (D&C 121, D&C 101, Luke 14, Mark 16, 2 Nephi 10) cross-checked against canonical wording to resolve OCR misreads.

Witnesses

No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.

Collation history

Proofread against the source text.

Proofread against the Internet Archive Conference Report scan/OCR witness; boundary, metadata, and OCR cleanup checked.

Collated word-by-word against the original scan.

Heavyweight pass: authoritative IA Conference Report source verified (conferencereport1906sa); page-by-page collation against the scan/OCR witness confirmed speaker, supplied title, exact date, session, and talk order (immediately follows Richards, closes the Third Day Morning Session). Removed trailing session-closing material (closing anthem, benediction credit, adjournment note, and a leaked fragment of the following Overflow Meeting section) that is not part of the address. Corrected OCR misreads throughout ("tosome"/"tofind"->to some/to find, "arc"->are, "comoel"->compel, "Lie"->He, "long:"->long-, and numerous stray apostrophes/hyphens/commas) verbatim against the witness, and cross-checked all quoted scripture against canonical wording.

Corrections

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