Anthony W. Ivins · 1908 October General Conference · 1908-10-04
Transcribed from the OCR of the official printed Conference Report of the Seventy-Ninth Semi-Annual Conference (October 1908), hosted at the Internet Archive (conferencereport1908sa). 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. 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: this file's body opened with a large duplicate block (the tail end of a different, unrelated talk's closing 'Amen', a session-closing/announcement record, and an overflow-meeting-opening record with 2 hymns and a prayer credit) plus a leaked printed-subject-list line, all wrongly prepended before the real talk (which begins 'I earnestly pray, my brethren and sisters...'). Confirmed against the IA djvu OCR (conferencereport1908sa) that the closing 'Amen' is intact. 0 QC ERRORs. Noah final review: approved 2026-07-20 (QC repairs approved; see per-scope repairs.yaml). QC scan-tiebreak 2026-07-19: both assigned block_divergence sites (0: witness alignment artifact wrongly matching a running head/next-talk fragment against the vault's paragraph-2 opening; 12: trailing next-talk-heading bleed after 'Amen') resolved witness_wrong against conferencereport1908sa leaves n15-n16 -- vault's talk boundaries and body text confirmed correct against the page. Reading both leaves also surfaced 2 uncaught defects, repaired against the page: 'upbn' -> 'upon', and a stray capital in 'we Will begin' -> 'we will begin'. Not a full collation. Noah final review: approved 2026-07-20 (QC repairs approved; see per-scope repairs.yaml).
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