Francis M. Lyman · 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. QC header-metadata pass (2026-07-17): anchored source_url to page/n55 (hand-verified against IA djvu OCR after the tooled anchor pass left it unresolved); rejoined 1 spurious mid-sentence hyphen ("workino- righteousness"->"workino righteousness"; left the "workino" OCR misread as printed per restraint principle, not part of this pass's allowlist).
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: this file was severely truncated mid-sentence (~700 words missing), cut off by a mid-body running-head bleed ('GENERAL CONFERENCE'). Recovered the missing closing section (a continued discourse on Sabbath observance and home religious training, plus a closing blessing) from the IA djvu OCR (conferencereport1908sa), through the genuine 'Amen'. Confirmed date/session/talk_order correct. 0 QC ERRORs.
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