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Church Records, Marriage, and the Low Mortality Rate

Anthon H. Lund · 1907 April General Conference · 1907-04-07

Fidelity

◕Authoritative print

Transcribed from the OCR of the official printed Conference Report of the Seventy-Seventh Annual Conference (April 1907), hosted at the Internet Archive (conferencereport1907a). 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.

Heavyweight pass: split session-opening record and a printed synopsis line out of this file (see heavyweight_review_notes); proofread against the conferencereport1907a DjVu XML reading-order reconstruction.

Collated word-by-word against the original scan.

Heavyweight pass: reconstructed true reading order from the conferencereport1907a DjVu XML word coordinates (scripts/ingest/cr-reading-order.py) since this pre-1911 report has no back-of-book index or printed session-per-talk headers. Split the genuine Third Day Morning Session opening record (call to order, prayer, choir anthem) that had been wrongly prepended to Lund's own remarks into new file 1907-04-conference-record-third-day-morning-opening.md. Removed the printed synopsis line ('Gratifying condition of financial...') per the vault's synopsis-bleed convention. Fixed a mid-sentence running-head/page-number bleed near the close ('...duty to go to the Lord's FAMINE IN CHINA.\n\n59 house...' -> '...duty to go to the Lord's house...'). Split the genuine session business that had been wrongly appended to the end of this file (President John R. Winder's famine-relief resolution) into new file 1907-04-conference-record-famine-in-china-resolution.md, since it is not part of Lund's own remarks and precedes B. H. Roberts's seconding address (1907-04-roberts-seconding-address). source_url anchored to leaf 54 (talk opening) per the existing page anchor. No other OCR letter errors found in the body beyond the bleed already noted.

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.