John Henry Smith · 1908 October General Conference · 1908-10-05
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): rejoined 1 spurious mid-sentence hyphen ("that- it"->"that it").
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: removed a block of leaked leading session material (session-opening record, 2 hymns, and a prayer credit) and a leaked printed-subject-list line, all wrongly prepended before the real talk (which begins 'My brethren and sisters, I am happy...'). Confirmed against the IA djvu OCR (conferencereport1908sa) that the closing 'Amen' is intact. 0 QC ERRORs.
This is a living critical edition. If you find a transcription, metadata, or sourcing error in this talk, report it to the editors →Reports are collated against the page scan and land as corrections in the vault.