Seymour B. Young · 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: this file had TWO entirely separate talks (Patriarch John Smith, and a Sustaining of General Authorities roll call) wrongly merged onto its end, following the real close ('...is my prayer, in the name of Jesus. Amen.') with only a leaked solo credit and garbled running heads marking the (unmarked) boundaries. Split both out into new files (1908-10-smith-j-testimony-and-service.md, 1908-10-grant-sustaining-of-authorities.md); this file now contains only Young's genuine talk. Removed a stray leading period at the start. Renumbered talk_order for the rest of the session to accommodate the two newly split files. Confirmed against the IA djvu OCR (conferencereport1908sa). 0 QC ERRORs.
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