John R. Winder · 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. 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 n115; 1-word correction, "Trusteein-trust" -> "Trustee-in-trust" (the Church's official title, doubly-hyphenated in print). 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 block of leaked leading session material (a garbled fragment, a 'CLOSING SESSION.' header, the session-opening record, a hymn) and a leaked printed-subject-list line, all wrongly prepended before the real talk (which begins 'I am very thankful, my brethren and sisters...'). Confirmed against the IA djvu OCR (conferencereport1908sa) that the closing 'Amen' is intact. 0 QC ERRORs. Noah final review: approved 2026-07-20 (QC repairs approved; see per-scope repairs.yaml).
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