Orson F. Whitney · 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. Noah final review: approved 2026-07-20 (QC repairs approved; see per-scope repairs.yaml). QC scan-tiebreak 2026-07-19: 2 sites collated against conferencereport1908sa leaves n91/n93; corrections "and wastes" -> "arid wastes" (vault had the wrong word; confirmed against the page image, which also references the National Irrigation Congress in the same passage) and "selfrestraint" -> "self-restraint" (hyphenated compound, confirmed against the page image's own section heading). 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: removed a leaked printed-subject-list fragment from the start. Confirmed against the IA djvu OCR (conferencereport1908sa) that this talk genuinely ends with a poem quotation ('...Keeping watch above His own.') immediately before President Joseph F. Smith's next talk begins -- not a truncation; no 'Amen' expected for this closing style. 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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