David O. McKay · 1907 April General Conference · 1907-04-05
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.
No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.
Proofread against the source text.
Heavyweight pass: proofread against the conferencereport1907a DjVu XML reading-order reconstruction; numerous OCR letter errors fixed.
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). Confirmed 'ELDER DAVID O. M'KAY.' correctly marks the start of McKay's own address (this is the first talk of the First Day Afternoon Session, so the preceding choir/prayer/hymn material is the session's genuine opening and is kept inline rather than split out, consistent with its small size). Fixed numerous OCR letter errors ('spok en'->'spoken', '1 stand'->'I stand', 'fostering oi'->'fostering of', 'pozver'->'power', 'tends:'->'tends', 'witli'->'with', 'ioin'->'join', 'Llis'->'His', 'Lie'->'He', 'vi^or'->'vigor', 'bv'->'by', 'everv'->'every', 'verytestimony'->'very testimony', 'ev ery'->'every', 'younp-'->'young', 'ail'->'all', and a stray page-number bleed '13' before 'comes forth'). Confirmed boundaries: begins with the session's opening choir/prayer/hymn, ends with McKay's own 'Amen.' followed by the genuine trailing session note (Edith Grant's solo). source_url already correctly anchored to leaf 11.
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