Ben E. Rich · 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). QC scan-tiebreak 2026-07-19: 1 site collated against conferencereport1908sa leaf n41; 2-word correction, "w,hen;" -> "where" and "trustthat" -> "trust that" (stray OCR punctuation and a dropped space; no printed hyphen at either point). 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: this file was severely truncated mid-sentence (~500 words missing), cut off by a mid-body running-head bleed ('GENERAL CONFERENCE'). Recovered the missing closing section (a discourse on persecution and loyalty, including the Porter Rockwell anecdote, and a closing testimony) from the IA djvu OCR (conferencereport1908sa), through the genuine 'Amen'. 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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