Orson F. Whitney · 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 1 spurious mid-sentence hyphen ("mouth of the- pit"->"mouth of the pit"). Noah final review: approved 2026-07-20 (QC repairs approved; see per-scope repairs.yaml). QC scan-tiebreak 2026-07-19: 2 sites collated against conferencereport1908a leaves n86-89; corrections "straightlaced" -> "straight-laced" (hyphenated compound spanning a page break, confirmed against leaves n88/n89) and "betweenthat" -> "between that" (dropped space). 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: removed a block of leaked leading session material (session-resumption record, 2 choir anthems, and a prayer credit) and a leaked printed-subject-list line, all wrongly prepended before the real talk (which begins 'Two ministers of the Christian church...'). Confirmed against the IA djvu OCR (conferencereport1908a) that the closing 'Amen' is intact. 0 QC ERRORs. Noah final review: approved 2026-07-20 (QC repairs approved; see per-scope repairs.yaml).
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