George Albert Smith · 1908 April General Conference · 1908-04-05
Heavyweight page-by-page collation against the Internet Archive scan/OCR of the official printed Conference Report of the Seventy-Eighth Annual Conference (April 1908, conferencereport1908a). OCR corrected by hand (running heads and line-break hyphenation removed, paragraphing restored, OCR misreads corrected verbatim against the witness). Grade reflects the officially published Conference Report.
No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.
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 (conferencereport1908a); page-by-page collation against the scan/OCR witness. Speaker confirmed as George Albert Smith (Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles) despite the generic 'smith-' filename, which refers to this speaker, not Hyrum M. Smith or Joseph F. Smith. Boundary confirmed: immediately follows Hyrum M. Smith's talk, immediately precedes George F. Richards's talk (a confirmed genuine vault gap, not included here). Found and fixed a significant boundary-bleed bug: the file body had absorbed a leaked page-header fragment ('ELDEE GEORGE F. RICHARDS.', an OCR-garbled running head at djvu line 4117) followed by the entirety of George F. Richards's talk text (djvu 4119-end) wrongly appended after Smith's closing 'Amen.' Both the leaked heading and all of Richards's talk text were removed; Smith's talk was otherwise already complete and correctly reflowed through its genuine closing 'Amen.' at djvu line 4114. Note: an earlier running-head repeat of 'ELDER GEORGE F. RICHARDS.' at djvu line 4019 (page 37 header) falls mid-sentence within Smith's own D&C 20:75-77 quotation and is not a talk boundary; confirmed the file has no leaked text at that point. Corrected OCR misreads verbatim against the witness: 'pjhysical' -> 'physical', 'imporantce' -> 'importance'. Fixed a genuine line-break hyphenation rejoin ('con demnation' -> 'condemnation', split across the djvu 4077/4080 page break) and a genuine dropped-space/OCR artifact ('If_ye' -> 'If ye', matching D&C 38:27 canonical wording). Cross-checked all scripture quotations (1 Corinthians 11:23-30, Book of Mormon 'chapter 9', 3 Nephi 18:5-7 and 10-11, D&C 20:75-77 including the sacrament prayer) against canonical wording and the OCR witness; all verified verbatim as printed, no further changes needed. Left period-authentic spellings/artifacts as printed per restraint (e.g. 'adminstration', 'examplars', and the recurring leading paragraph-mark artifact rendered as a stray comma/period at the start of several paragraphs, a pattern that recurs elsewhere in this same Conference Report volume).
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.