Ben E. Rich · 1908 April General Conference · 1908-04-05
Transcribed from the OCR of the official printed Conference Report of the Seventy-Eighth Annual Conference (April 1908), hosted at the Internet Archive (conferencereport1908a). 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.
Light review: in-context proofread, synopsis/session-artifact cleanup, and spacing fixes. NOT a full page-by-page scan collation. QC header-metadata pass (2026-07-17): rejoined 2 spurious mid-sentence hyphens ("they- would"->"they would", "in- connection"->"in connection"). Noah final review: approved 2026-07-20 (QC repairs approved; see per-scope repairs.yaml). QC scan-tiebreak 2026-07-19: 9 sites collated against conferencereport1908a leaves n78-86; corrections "Smithgiven"->"Smith given", "youand"->"you," + "Thaf"->"That", "PresiSISTER"/paragraph-break->"President" (residual running-head bleed), "rerequired"->"re-required" (genuine period misprint, preserved with hyphen restored), restored the dropped phrase "friends here, President Rich, Presi" before "dent Robinson", "subdue and wastes"->"subdue arid wastes", "upon the and waste"->"upon the arid waste", "toprophesy"->"to prophesy", and "dension"->"derision" (confirmed via zoomed page-image crop, quoting D&C 122:1). All corrections confirmed against the actual page images or djvu OCR word stream, not just the escalation diff. Not a full collation. Noah final review: approved 2026-07-20 (QC repairs approved; see per-scope repairs.yaml).
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: collated against the IA djvu OCR (conferencereport1908a); confirmed talk boundaries, full body text, and closing 'Amen' intact with no truncation, running-head bleeds, or leaked subject-list fragments. Confirmed date/session/talk_order correct. 0 QC ERRORs. Noah final review: approved 2026-07-20 (QC repairs approved; see per-scope repairs.yaml).
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