Joseph F. Smith · 1908 October General Conference · 1908-10-06
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.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: removed a leaked printed-subject-list fragment from the start. This file also had an ENTIRE separate talk (John G. McQuarrie's) wrongly appended to its end, following the genuine close ('...Amen.') with leaked session-transition/session-opening material and a garbled running head ('ELDER JOHN G. MdTJARRIE.') in between; split out into new file 1908-10-mcquarrie-truth-and-knowledge.md. This file now contains only Smith's genuine talk. Confirmed against the IA djvu OCR (conferencereport1908sa). 0 QC ERRORs. QC scan-tiebreak 2026-07-19: both assigned escalations (running-head bleed at the n97/n98 leaf boundary; trailing bleed of the post-talk hymn/benediction/adjournment material) collated against conferencereport1908sa leaves n97-n98; both witness_wrong, 0 repairs -- vault matches the printed page verbatim start to finish. Not a full collation.
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