Joseph S. Wells · 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: collated against the IA djvu OCR (conferencereport1908sa); confirmed talk boundaries, full body text, and closing 'Amen' intact with no truncation, running-head bleeds, or leaked subject-list fragments. Confirmed date/session/talk_order correct. 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 escalations (running-head bleed at the n54/n55 leaf boundary; trailing hymn/benediction/afternoon-session bleed) resolved witness_wrong against conferencereport1908sa leaves n54-n55. Reading the full leaves against the vault also surfaced 3 uncaught defects, all repaired against the page: 'aeain' -> 'again', 'orincioles' -> 'principles', and a dropped 'the' in 'progress of [the] Church'. Not a full collation. Noah final review: approved 2026-07-20 (QC repairs approved; see per-scope repairs.yaml).
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.